Author Topic: Younger Republicans are more liberal than their elders (Read 3025 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** January 24, 2019, 12:17:48 PM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/gop-liberal-america-millennials.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

There may well be continued leftward movement in our political landscape, especially as older Republicans die off and are replaced by our children and grandchildren.

freakazoid · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2019, 03:41:17 PM »

I thought there were articles talking about the younger generation being much more right.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2019, 07:40:38 PM »

Overton Window .... the aperture that sheds light on political movements .....

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Pb · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2019, 09:13:29 AM »

Young people are pretty much always more liberal than older ones.

Hopefully they will grow out of it.

WLJ · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2019, 09:20:05 AM »

Quote from: BTR on January 25, 2019, 09:13:29 AM

Young people are pretty much always more liberal than older ones.

Hopefully they will grow out of it.

Usually when they find out, all too often the hard way, that not everything they KNEW as a teenager was right and that their parents just may have been right about quite a few things the whole time.

230RN · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2019, 10:18:03 AM »

Quote from: BTR on January 25, 2019, 09:13:29 AM

Young people are pretty much always more liberal than older ones.

Hopefully they will grow out of it.

Somebody once said,

"If a man isn't a Communist by the time he's twenty, he has no heart. And if he hasn't rejected it by the time he's thirty, he has no brain."

Terry, 230RN

brimic · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2019, 10:21:14 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on January 25, 2019, 10:18:03 AM

Who was it who said,

"If a man isn't a Communist by the time he's twenty, he has no heart. And if he hasn't rejected it by the time he's thirty, he has no brain."

Terry, 230RN

I have no heart then.

bedlamite · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2019, 10:22:49 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on January 25, 2019, 10:18:03 AM

Somebody once said,

"If a man isn't a Communist by the time he's twenty, he has no heart. And if he hasn't rejected it by the time he's thirty, he has no brain."

Terry, 230RN

You realize we are headed for Idiocracy ...

RocketMan · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2019, 09:10:37 AM »

Quote from: bedlamite on January 25, 2019, 10:22:49 AM

You realize we are headed for Idiocracy ...

You realize the journey is nearly complete?

Sindawe · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2019, 11:12:01 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on January 25, 2019, 10:18:03 AM

Somebody once said,

"If a man isn't a Communist by the time he's twenty, he has no heart. And if he hasn't rejected it by the time he's thirty, he has no brain."

Terry, 230RN

Oh, I had a heart when I was twenty. I kept it at home. In a box. Packed in salt.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2019, 11:51:47 AM »

Quote from: RocketMan on January 26, 2019, 09:10:37 AM

You realize the journey is nearly complete?

Are we there yet? ...... Are we there yet?....... Are we there yet? .........

WLJ · « **Reply #11 on:** January 26, 2019, 11:57:20 AM »

Quote from: RocketMan on January 26, 2019, 09:10:37 AM

You realize the journey is nearly complete?

Turn on Jerry Springer, I fear the off ramp was passed a while back.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 26, 2019, 12:58:38 PM »

Quote

According to the study — which was based on online surveys of 920 youths aged 13 to 17 and nearly 11,000 adults 18 or older — only 30 percent of Generation Z respondents said they approved of President Trump’s performance; more than half believed humans were fueling climate change; and 70 percent said they wanted the government to do more to solve the nation’s problems. Those views roughly mirror attitudes held by Millennials, and together, the two age groups may add up to a powerful voting bloc at odds with Republican orthodoxy, political scientists say.

I guess I am curious how they did the online survey and how it is supposed to be representative.

Skimming some of the rest of the article, I wonder if what we really see is younger Republicans are just less authoritarian than older Republicans which might be a good thing.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #13 on:** January 26, 2019, 03:03:44 PM »

We're surprised that the NY Times is reporting that "young conservatives" are really liberals in sheep's clothing?

That said, I do think the younger conservative is a lot less traditionally conservative on social issues that the government has no reason to be sticking it's nose in anyway.

T.O.M. · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2019, 08:58:27 PM »

I do volunteer work with a lot of young people. In my experience, they tend to look at individual issues rather than party platforms. On issues such as civil liberties, race relations, LGBTQ, reproductive rights, immigration, I agree they are more liberal. On other issues, including many on self defense and RKBA, more conservative.

Oh, and I always heard the quote as "if you weren't a liberal in your 20s, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative by your 40s, you have no brain."

Ron · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2019, 09:26:10 PM »

That is how the government schools and all media have programmed them, you’re surprised?

Being opposed to the right is where any sane person would stand.

gunsmith · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2019, 11:05:37 PM »

young guy I know, very active in local R politics.
Totally in support of the bump stock ban, red flag laws and gun free zones on campus.
so do most of them

lupinus · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2019, 11:11:49 AM »

Most of the younger conservatives I know are very conservative in certain areas, very liberal in others (especially compared to older Republicans). With both having a very strong undercurrent of leave people the hell alone.

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makattak · « **Reply #18 on:** January 30, 2019, 11:19:28 AM »

As others have noted, the left's march through the institutions has borne fruit.

We'll see if exposure to reality lifts the veil these young Republicans have lived under in the education system or if the programming holds.

French G. · « **Reply #19 on:** January 30, 2019, 11:24:15 AM »

I guess I am not young anymore, but I am not quite yelling at clouds yet. I typically vote R. I abhor a lot of what the left is pushing, but that doesn't mean I align with what the right wants. I don't want to live in a Mike Pence theocracy anymore than I want to live in a Kamala Harris work camp. Somebody want to start a party that is about limited federal government, states rights and non sjw equality, sign me up. And oh yeah, a party that doesn't turn out Gary Johnsons.

So while I am in poll stats a likely R voter, what exactly do they offer?

MillCreek · « **Reply #20 on:** January 30, 2019, 12:21:32 PM »

Quote from: French G. on January 30, 2019, 11:24:15 AM

I guess I am not young anymore, but I am not quite yelling at clouds yet. I typically vote R. I abhor a lot of what the left is pushing, but that doesn't mean I align with what the right wants. I don't want to live in a Mike Pence theocracy anymore than I want to live in a Kamala Harris work camp. Somebody want to start a party that is about limited federal government, states rights and non sjw equality, sign me up. And oh yeah, a party that doesn't turn out Gary Johnsons.

So while I am in poll stats a likely R voter, what exactly do they offer?

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Ron · « **Reply #21 on:** January 30, 2019, 12:58:12 PM »

You guys won’t ever get your wish.

What you are describing is cargo cult USA, what we’ve already had and is currently “progressing” away.

You don’t get what you want with modern day presuppositions about reality.

Cultural and political systems will reflect the moral, religious and philosophical axioms of the people.

In short, we’re *expletive deleted*ed.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #22 on:** January 30, 2019, 03:02:57 PM »

Quote from: French G. on January 30, 2019, 11:24:15 AM

I guess I am not young anymore, but I am not quite yelling at clouds yet. I typically vote R. I abhor a lot of what the left is pushing, but that doesn't mean I align with what the right wants. I don't want to live in a Mike Pence theocracy anymore than I want to live in a Kamala Harris work camp. Somebody want to start a party that is about limited federal government, states rights and non sjw equality, sign me up. And oh yeah, a party that doesn't turn out Gary Johnsons.

So while I am in poll stats a likely R voter, what exactly do they offer?

The weird part is, I'm pretty sure if that party appeared, they'd win in a landslide.

Scout26 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 30, 2019, 04:12:18 PM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 30, 2019, 03:02:57 PM

The weird part is, I'm pretty sure if that party appeared, they'd win in a landslide.

Shall we revive the Whigs ?? Modern day (Big "L") Party Libertarians only seem to care about MJ legalization but only pay lip service to everything else.

lupinus · « **Reply #24 on:** January 30, 2019, 06:10:37 PM »

Quote from: Amy Schumer on January 30, 2019, 04:12:18 PM

Shall we revive the Whigs ?? Modern day (Big "L") Party Libertarians only seem to care about MJ legalization but only pay lip service to everything else.

To many old moldy Cheetos.

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