The GOP Has a Problem: My Generation Isn't Conservative

[Dragonlady]

It has been the case for the past several generations that young people, particularly "intelligent" young people going off to college are "liberal" in their viewpoints, and become more liberal throughout their university experience.

Young adults are not shifting to the Right politically because they are brought up to be pussies. And there you have it.

Young people are not growing up to be conservative because they've been brought up to be
"pussies", or because they've been brainwashed by liberal universities. They're not growing up to be conservative because they can see what a lying con Republican policies have been.

Millennials have screwed over by Republican economic policies since the day they were born. Neither Generation X or the Millennials are expected to do as well economically as their parents, or to live as long. The Baby Boomers have bankrupted them to pay for three generations of tax cuts, and 20 years of war. The US economy has become stratified by wealth and privilege. If you were born poor in 1980, you had a 20% chance of getting a good education and working your way into the middle class. Today you have a 2% chance.

The USA is no longer the land of opportunity. Republican tax and economic policies have ended wealth and opportunity for all. Now nothing about Republican tax and economic policies are small "c" conservative. They say the words - small government, balanced budgets, law and order, but in reality, Republicans have steadily increased the size of the government, the size of the deficit, and have been most ineffective in dealing with matters of law and order. Republicans are simply not a conservative party.

My generation wasn't graduating university with the millstone of a year or more's income of student debt around our necks. Baby Boomers have taken everything and left nothing behind for their children and grandchildren. The high quality education American Boomers received has been shot to hell because of political destruction of the system and 40 years of tax and budget cuts for education. When you have conservative parents directing that their child not be taught science, evolution, climate change, or the history of racism in the USA, or enroll them in "Christian" schools which indoctrinate them into conservative dogma but do little to prepare them for work in the 21st Century.

War and tax cuts for billionaires now have the middle class subsidizing the wages of the most profitable corporations in America. Young white people aren't having babies because they can't afford to. They're living with their parents for health insurance and because they can't pay for a house and student debt.

Why would anyone under the age of 50 vote for Republican economic policies, designed to favour investors over workers. Only a gullible fool or someone making more than 1 million dollars per year would ever vote for Republicans just based on the economic record.

 

[dudmuck]

It has been the case for the past several generations that young people, particularly "intelligent" young people going off to college are "liberal" in their viewpoints, and become more liberal throughout their university experience.

Then, when they go out to try to earn a living and see how much of their earnings are taken away in taxes, and see how many people are sucking off the government's teats, they quickly begin to see the Conservative side of things.

But this transition is muted, obfuscated, delayed, and even totally avoided for the past few generations. They are supported by their parents until nearly middle age, they go to work for government, social agencies, foundations, etc., which are divorced from the real world. They never have to support themselves independently until they are in their 30's and 40's, by which time their intellectual growth is a thing of the past, and all of their friends are similarly insulated from reality.

And of course the culture abhors people who actually take responsibility for their own lives and affairs. How many Gen-X people on scripted TV have real jobs and are supporting themselves independently? Not many.

In short, the challenge of supporting oneself in the real world used to be a Rite of Passage into adulthood, which was usually associated with a shift in political leanings from Left to Right. But the Left has tried to obliterate that passage by promising today's young adults everything they want, provided by "someone else's" taxes. You don't have to repay those student loans. You don't have support those kids. You don't have to take care of your elderly parents, and on and on.

Young adults are not shifting to the Right politically because they are brought up to be pussies. And there you have it.

its more simple than that.
two reasons
republicans only care about the wealthy; no action on student debt.
the other is the younger generation doesnt want to be associated with redneck racists.

 

[pknopp]

its more simple than that.
two reasons
republicans only care about the wealthy; no action on student debt.
the other is the younger generation doesnt want to be associated with redneck racists.

Biden doesn't need the Republicans to address student debt. At least as far as Federal Loans are concerned.

Can Biden Cancel Private Student Loans? 3 Options

 

[iceberg]

I guess watching in horror as GOPers storm our capital with Confederate flags didn't help the situation much for the Republican party, as far as Millenials are concerned.

Oops!

yea but if they go to portland and set fire to "the establishment" you'll giggle in glee.

 

[Papageorgio]

Young people are not growing up to be conservative because they've been brought up to be
"pussies", or because they've been brainwashed by liberal universities. They're not growing up to be conservative because they can see what a lying con Republican policies have been.

Millennials have screwed over by Republican economic policies since the day they were born. Neither Generation X or the Millennials are expected to do as well economically as their parents, or to live as long. The Baby Boomers have bankrupted them to pay for three generations of tax cuts, and 20 years of war. The US economy has become stratified by wealth and privilege. If you were born poor in 1980, you had a 20% chance of getting a good education and working your way into the middle class. Today you have a 2% chance.

The USA is no longer the land of opportunity. Republican tax and economic policies have ended wealth and opportunity for all. Now nothing about Republican tax and economic policies are small "c" conservative. They say the words - small government, balanced budgets, law and order, but in reality, Republicans have steadily increased the size of the government, the size of the deficit, and have been most ineffective in dealing with matters of law and order. Republicans are simply not a conservative party.

My generation wasn't graduating university with the millstone of a year or more's income of student debt around our necks. Baby Boomers have taken everything and left nothing behind for their children and grandchildren. The high quality education American Boomers received has been shot to hell because of political destruction of the system and 40 years of tax and budget cuts for education. When you have conservative parents directing that their child not be taught science, evolution, climate change, or the history of racism in the USA, or enroll them in "Christian" schools which indoctrinate them into conservative dogma but do little to prepare them for work in the 21st Century.

War and tax cuts for billionaires now have the middle class subsidizing the wages of the most profitable corporations in America. Young white people aren't having babies because they can't afford to. They're living with their parents for health insurance and because they can't pay for a house and student debt.

Why would anyone under the age of 50 vote for Republican economic policies, designed to favour investors over workers. Only a gullible fool or someone making more than 1 million dollars per year would ever vote for Republicans just based on the economic record.

Off course you can link all the facts you are shooting at us, right?

 

[Flash]

It will be easy to turn the US into a Socialist shithole.

It will be impossible to recover from it.

 

[westwall]

It will be easy to turn the US into a Socialist shithole.

It will be impossible to recover from it.

Not impossible. Just bloody.

 

[Independentthinker]

Millennials and Generation Z show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did. We must address the age gap.

A Wake-Up Call for Conservatives | National Review

Millennials and Generation Z show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did. We must address the age gap.

www.nationalreview.com

The GOP has a problem, and it MIGHT be because they haven't had a good President since *checks notes*

1992.

It was just before the 2016 election that the left claimed the Republican Party/Conservatives were dead, never to be heard from again. Then Trump won the nomination and everyone on the left were doubled over laughing hard. Then came the TDS pandemic. Come 2022 even most Democrats quietly acknowledge that Republicans will gain control of both the Senate and the House. And, hey, don't forget about gerrymandering. How can you be so confident the Republican Party is dead when they have 10 more years of benefiting from gerrymandering? Have you already forgotten the excuse you guys use when you lose?

 

[Bush92]

I couldn't give a damn about them, so long as they don't rub their "lifestyle" in my face.

Of course, that's exactly what they do.

When you demonstrate your ability to read minds, perhaps someone will pay attention to your ranting.

Fuck the free-ride taxpayer funded socialist crybaby generation. Earn something for a living lazy fucks.

 

[Bush92]

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

Or I will cap your communist ass. Property owners right.

 

[Bush92]

It has been the case for the past several generations that young people, particularly "intelligent" young people going off to college are "liberal" in their viewpoints, and become more liberal throughout their university experience.

Then, when they go out to try to earn a living and see how much of their earnings are taken away in taxes, and see how many people are sucking off the government's teats, they quickly begin to see the Conservative side of things.

But this transition is muted, obfuscated, delayed, and even totally avoided for the past few generations. They are supported by their parents until nearly middle age, they go to work for government, social agencies, foundations, etc., which are divorced from the real world. They never have to support themselves independently until they are in their 30's and 40's, by which time their intellectual growth is a thing of the past, and all of their friends are similarly insulated from reality.

And of course the culture abhors people who actually take responsibility for their own lives and affairs. How many Gen-X people on scripted TV have real jobs and are supporting themselves independently? Not many.

In short, the challenge of supporting oneself in the real world used to be a Rite of Passage into adulthood, which was usually associated with a shift in political leanings from Left to Right. But the Left has tried to obliterate that passage by promising today's young adults everything they want, provided by "someone else's" taxes. You don't have to repay those student loans. You don't have support those kids. You don't have to take care of your elderly parents, and on and on.

Young adults are not shifting to the Right politically because they are brought up to be pussies. And there you have it.

Exactly. Indoctrination.

 

[Oldestyle]

Millennials and Generation Z show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did. We must address the age gap.

A Wake-Up Call for Conservatives | National Review

Millennials and Generation Z show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did. We must address the age gap.

www.nationalreview.com

The GOP has a problem, and it MIGHT be because they haven't had a good President since *checks notes*

1992.

LOL...so you think you're the first generation that wasn't "liberal" when you were young? When I was in High School and College I marched against the Vietnam War and voted for McGovern. Being young and naive is a rite of passage. You'll grow out of it...unless of course your career is in academics or you work in the Public Sector...then you'll grow older and still be just AS naive!

 

[Papageorgio]

It was just before the 2016 election that the left claimed the Republican Party/Conservatives were dead, never to be heard from again. Then Trump won the nomination and everyone on the left were doubled over laughing hard. Then came the TDS pandemic. Come 2022 even most Democrats quietly acknowledge that Republicans will gain control of both the Senate and the House. And, hey, don't forget about gerrymandering. How can you be so confident the Republican Party is dead when they have 10 more years of benefiting from gerrymandering? Have you already forgotten the excuse you guys use when you lose?

When Bush won 2004 the GOP thought the Democrats were dead. That didn’t happen either. I am pretty sure we are stuck with the bad two party system.

 

[Bush92]

LOL...so you think you're the first generation that wasn't "liberal" when you were young? When I was in High School and College I marched against the Vietnam War and voted for McGovern. Being young and naive is a rite of passage. You'll grow out of it...unless of course your career is in academics or you work in the Public Sector...then you'll grow older and still be just AS naive!

They buy into what their teachers and college professors brain wash them into. Unable to think for themselves.

 

[Rogue AI]

The 'projection' is flawed. These younger generations are waiting longer to have kids. That is when people tend to shift from dumb liberal to responsible conservative.

 

[lennypartiv]

The younger generations have been drinking Bernie's kool-aid for too long. It may be too late to fix their brains.

 

[Dragonlady]

Off course you can link all the facts you are shooting at us, right?

Why? The OP didn’t provide any links to his bullshit?

 

[Lesh]

LOL...so you think you're the first generation that wasn't "liberal" when you were young? When I was in High School and College I marched against the Vietnam War and voted for McGovern. Being young and naive is a rite of passage. You'll grow out of it...unless of course your career is in academics or you work in the Public Sector...then you'll grow older and still be just AS naive!

So you ride whatever tide is coming in huh?

 

[Dragonlady]

The 'projection' is flawed. These younger generations are waiting longer to have kids. That is when people tend to shift from dumb liberal to responsible conservative.

These younger generations are waiting longer to have kids because they can’t afford to raise them.

Child care is currently running $200 per week per child. My youngest daughter, who is in her early 30’s, is the only one of her childhood friends who has children.

LOL...so you think you're the first generation that wasn't "liberal" when you were young? When I was in High School and College I marched against the Vietnam War and voted for McGovern. Being young and naive is a rite of passage. You'll grow out of it...unless of course your career is in academics or you work in the Public Sector...then you'll grow older and still be just AS naive!

Only Americans have grown more conservative as they've aged, but really, what Republicans have been promoting is hardly conservative principles. Republicans, since Reagan, have promoted the idea that poverty is the result of race, sloth and lack of motivation, not lack of opportunity or racial injustice.

While Republican tax and labour policies destroyed the unions, suppressed worker wages, and rewarded wealth over work in the USA, other countries were enacting family friendly labour legislation, child care and health care policies, and free education for as much of the population as possible. Their tax and labour policies rewarded work over wealth, and tax dollars are reinvested in infrastructure, eduction, and innovation.

Most top American universities educate the children of the wealthy first and foremost - 30% legacy, and then sell admissions to the children of the elite from around the world. Not much chance for those without wealth and connections to get in, and certainly not enough to change the current social strata. Added to which, the white people whine like bitches if AA ensures that at least some poor minorities get in.

If your Dad went to Yale, you can go to Yale too, with or without the marks. Geoge W. Bush was a legacy student, son of the Speaker of the House, when he was admitted to Yale. Despite being a C student at best. Even W admits he was a rich kid fuck up when he was younger. But he got into Yale all the same.

 

[Oldestyle]

These younger generations are waiting longer to have kids because they can’t afford to raise them.

Child care is currently running $200 per week per child. My youngest daughter, who is in her early 30’s, is the only one of her childhood friends who has children.


Only Americans have grown more conservative as they've aged, but really, what Republicans have been promoting is hardly conservative principles. Republicans, since Reagan, have promoted the idea that poverty is the result of race, sloth and lack of motivation, not lack of opportunity or racial injustice.

While Republican tax and labour policies destroyed the unions, suppressed worker wages, and rewarded wealth over work in the USA, other countries were enacting family friendly labour legislation, child care and health care policies, and free education for as much of the population as possible. Their tax and labour policies rewarded work over wealth, and tax dollars are reinvested in infrastructure, eduction, and innovation.

Most top American universities educate the children of the wealthy first and foremost - 30% legacy, and then sell admissions to the children of the elite from around the world. Not much chance for those without wealth and connections to get in, and certainly not enough to change the current social strata. Added to which, the white people whine like bitches if AA ensures that at least some poor minorities get in.

If your Dad went to Yale, you can go to Yale too, with or without the marks. Geoge W. Bush was a legacy student, son of the Speaker of the House, when he was admitted to Yale. Despite being a C student at best. Even W admits he was a rich kid fuck up when he was younger. But he got into Yale all the same.

Republicans have promoted the idea that poverty is the result of race, sloth and lack of motivation? In what way, Dragonlady? Democrats tell people they are "victims" and it's not their fault that they didn't do shit in school...didn't work hard at jobs...and did spend their money on stupid things! You don't have to bust your ass in school...go the extra mile at your job...or learn to live on a budget...you're a VICTIM and society owes you something! It's a crock.

These younger generations are waiting longer to have kids because they can’t afford to raise them.

Child care is currently running $200 per week per child. My youngest daughter, who is in her early 30’s, is the only one of her childhood friends who has children.


Only Americans have grown more conservative as they've aged, but really, what Republicans have been promoting is hardly conservative principles. Republicans, since Reagan, have promoted the idea that poverty is the result of race, sloth and lack of motivation, not lack of opportunity or racial injustice.

While Republican tax and labour policies destroyed the unions, suppressed worker wages, and rewarded wealth over work in the USA, other countries were enacting family friendly labour legislation, child care and health care policies, and free education for as much of the population as possible. Their tax and labour policies rewarded work over wealth, and tax dollars are reinvested in infrastructure, eduction, and innovation.

Most top American universities educate the children of the wealthy first and foremost - 30% legacy, and then sell admissions to the children of the elite from around the world. Not much chance for those without wealth and connections to get in, and certainly not enough to change the current social strata. Added to which, the white people whine like bitches if AA ensures that at least some poor minorities get in.

If your Dad went to Yale, you can go to Yale too, with or without the marks. Geoge W. Bush was a legacy student, son of the Speaker of the House, when he was admitted to Yale. Despite being a C student at best. Even W admits he was a rich kid fuck up when he was younger. But he got into Yale all the same.

W's grade point average was 77 which happens to be the exact same as John F. Kennedy. He also happens to be one of our most educated Presidents.
As for who get's into Ivy League colleges? The truth is if you're a poor kid in America you have a far better chance of attending an Ivy League college than you would if you were a kid from the Middle Class. So much for your claim that poor minorities don't get in. The ones that don't get into Yale and Harvard are your Middle Class kids.