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I'll let ya in on a little secret.
That term Silent Majority, most of us had assumed there would be polls and there would questionnaires and surveys...
Ready for the kick in the family jewels...
For most of us who participated in polls and surveys. We lied on purpose to make the shock and awe that much more sweeter
It was well coordinated
But hey... don't take my word for it. Remember how Trump wasn't favorable in the polls? Projected land slide victory by clinton Conservative Millennials.
Care to take a guess at how many polls and surveys myself and about 2 dozen of my closest friends took?
And then election night...
We deceived your precious polls. We built you up, gave you a false sense of security and hope.
Election night. Ripped the rug out beneath you.
But hey... surveys and polls don't lie right?
LoL...sounds good...but I doubt it. You probably were as surprised as anyone else...but hey--nice story.
A related factor to how generations fall politically is their racial composition. Each emerging American generation is more diverse than the one that preceeded it.
Millennials: 57% non-Hispanic white
Gen Xers: 61% non-Hispanic white
Baby Boomers: 72% non-Hispanic white
Silent Gen: 78% non-Hispanic white
Today’s kids?
Ages 15-19: 54.3% non-Hispanic white
Ages 10-14: 52.7% non-Hispanic white
Ages 5-9: 50.4% non-Hispanic white
Less than 5: 49.7 non-Hispanic white
Well what really matters is where all of those people live. If the liberals are gathered in big cities in blue states it won't matter how big of a majority they have because a state only has so many electoral votes. Who lives in those swing states is what matters.
You claim to be concerned about both sides yet you only list your grievances with the left. What is it that you worry about with the right?
My issues with some on the hard-right include support for government-regulated morality, maintaining or expanding the prison industrial complex, turning the government into an unaccountable domestic spying organization that infringes upon our Constitutional rights, some degree of aversion to science in favor of irrational superstition, and some lingering anxiety about women.
Church attendance is declining and many younger people are seeking different ways to worship and a different approach to spirituality.
As to nostalgia for good old Christian moral values, would that include priests sexually abusing children? How about husbands beating their wives with the church's blessing? How about religiously sanctioned racism? Is that in or out?
As to the blaming the National Debt on liberals, think again. Reagan tripled the National Debt. Bush's tax cuts and wars along with his financial debacle was behind the last run up. Clinton had several years of a budget surplus paying down the debt.
In fact, if you look at the records going back fifty years or so, the last Republican President to leave the U.S. in better financial shape than he found it was Eisenhower and what with his interstate infrastructure spending, not sure he would be counted as a conservative any longer.
As to personal debt, hard to pin this on one side or the other, but we do know that there is a strong correlation between ACA and drop in personal bankruptcies.
Got to wonder what Jesus would say about what the conservatives are up to now. The story of the Good Samaritan comes to mind, moneychangers in the temple, the loaves and fishes.
Thats funny, Your little spiel on the national debt left out this tiny little tidbit. Every other president since the founding of the country brought us to $10 trillion in debt and Obama left us at $19 trillion.
In 8 years Odumbo spend what the last 240 years of presidents did.
My issues with some on the hard-right include support for government-regulated morality, maintaining or expanding the prison industrial complex, turning the government into an unaccountable domestic spying organization that infringes upon our Constitutional rights, some degree of aversion to science in favor of irrational superstition, and some lingering anxiety about women.
You may just want to pay attention to what becomes of the events that took place in vegas. And chew your representative and Congress critters out if they are pro TSA style security measures.
And finish with quoting Benjamin Franklin.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I know what you're referencing-patriot act under dubya...
People who use their race, color or creed for political advantage or gain lack moral courage. White supremacists are despicable people and unfortunately they have been classified as conservatives when in fact many of them are not at all conservative in their principles and lifestyles, they are very liberal. They will be eager to take advantage of free rides, welfare and handouts and are devoid of the moral principles which are fundamental to true conservatism.
The leftist media has erroneously labeled these people conservative when there is actually nothing conservative about them besides their ignorant and hypocritical race-mongering, which has nothing to do with the political ideology of libertarian-conservatism which is inherent to the Constitution.
The socialist like to say, "Conservatives want to keep things the same and liberals want to change things for the better" but fail to understand what they are talking about ideology wise.
Another thing the leftist media likes to do is classify these so called 'white supremacists and 'neo-nazis' as 'Conservatives' but in reality and fact the Third Reich and Nazis are mutually exclusive of what true Conservatism is as a political philosophy and ideology. The Third Reich was in fact a National-Socialist party and ideology that had more in common with socialist-progressives of today by ideology than the true nature of political conservatism and the nature of libertarian values that created the original Constitution, much of it being based on enlightenment philosophies which have not much in common with the welfare state of today.
Thomas Jefferson had a great mind but fell short in action of principle. If there is someone to truly admire it is the great George Washington.
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I think that when it comes down to it millennials are divided politically as well. To me it's not so much that older people are conservative and millennials are liberal, but it's more that people in the country tend to be conservative and people in the city tend to be liberal. And people in the country are more likely to be older so that makes the older voters more conservative.
True. The inner city parts of Tulsa and Oklahoma City are about the only places left in Oklahoma where Republicans clearly don't dominate. Lots of religious conservative elderly people in rural Oklahoma, especially in the 20 out of 77 counties where liquor by the drink is still banned. The younger ones have largely left rural Oklahoma behind, mostly for the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metros or out of state.
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