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right now, there are about equal numbers of Dems and Repubs.
Do you think those numbers will still be the same in 20 years? 50?
What do you think will change?
Younger voters tend to be much more liberal on issues like same sex marriage, legalization of marijuana and race relations.
Another thing to note is that 86% of Americans age 65 and over are classified as "White Alone" by the Census Bureau. The number of Americans age 25 and younger classfied as Asian, Latino, or Black is 39%. The number of children in grades K-12 classfied as Asian, Latino, or Black is 43%. The year 2009 marks the first year that the number of White American babies was less than 50% of all babies born. You do the math.
I predict a growing percentage of independents. Democrats will remain strong and will continue to increase in suburban areas. Republicans will likely shrink as a percentage of all registered voters as they increasingly become the party of rural whites with conservative values.
I see the Republican party growing a lot as people finally wake up and realize the mess the democrats always make any time they are in charge.
I also predict the typical college 'lib' will start to rethink his/her political affiliations as they realize they cannot get a free ride from mom and dad since they no longer have the money due to the economy and the policies the dems are trying to put in place. It sure is easy for the college kids to listen to lib professors and become passionate about entitlements and distributing wealth and class warfare.....when someone else is paying their bills and taxes and so forth.
I hope for, but do not expect, a major rise of a populist party based on creating a society with actual, not etherial, Liberty and Justice for All. The growing fraction of minorites that have been maltreated by the previously predominant White People's parties will be more interested in Justice than competition.
We'll continue to limp along as a 'democracy' with our one party system of crooks and career politicians of every stripe. Then this country will disappear into footnotes of history books. The End.
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