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One of the reasons you cannot hold on to young voters is you do not recognize that most of them are much more socially liberal even when they are conservative about most other issues.
Many of my students are actually quite conservative (we are a mandatory ROTC component) but most of them don't vote because they cannot bring themselves to support the GOP over social issues.
Just look at the schools. With 12 to 16 years to brainwash young, impressionable minds, the leftist teachers in schools have the power to indoctrinate the masses.
Really? When I was in school, I learned that Capitalism was the best economic system
I learned that Communism doesn't work
We were taught the Golden Rule (which is basically a reflection of the ten commandments)
We were taught to respect our elders
We learned about history, science, math and language, and also learned there were opposing views.
Yeah, some of my teachers were Liberal, some were staunchly conservative. It seems you're only capable of seeing the stuff you don't like, because (I assume) you take the stuff you DO like for granted, and assume "it's right, so why complain".
Schools are not brainwashing. Understanding how to think critically, and to understand things is going to favor more progressive ideas. That's not bias, it's just that the old curmudgeons on the right can't suppress truth forever.
Just look at the schools. With 12 to 16 years to brainwash young, impressionable minds, the leftist teachers in schools have the power to indoctrinate the masses.
One of the reasons you cannot hold on to young voters is you do not recognize that most of them are much more socially liberal even when they are conservative about most other issues.
Many of my students are actually quite conservative (we are a mandatory ROTC component) but most of them don't vote because they cannot bring themselves to support the GOP over social issues.
It may be too late but I'm hoping there are some young people that dont want to be indentured servants to the state by getting hooked on its "free" stuff. As it stands now they will inherit a pile of debt and be forced into funding the retirement and medical schemes of current and future retirees. Once recognized, they should seek to tear these unsustainable debt plauged schemes down and live their lives outside the influence of the destructive state. Yes the same state that creates divisiveness amongst the genders and races by forcing realtionships and words on them. Shake it off before it takes you down.
Well, I think the Republican party has already ceased to exist in the traditional form of the 1950s. You could make a case that, as you say, it's "stuck" in the 1950s (the racism, the misogyny), but it could also be said that it's nothing like the 1950s, where Reps seemed much more rational then.
The same can be said about the Democrats. I'm sure Harry Truman would be disgusted by what the democratic party has become...….
Yay! Do whatever you want or whatever feels good! This philosophy maintains solidarity in societies! We have oodles of historical evidence for this! Freedom! Freedom! Progress!
No, what is shocking is that anyone believes that free stuff buys presidencies.
That old saw was tried with Obama voters, now younger voters? It's stale--perhaps you could find another non-reason for who people elect.
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