From Vox - Millennials Are Losing Faith In the Presidency. Good. (Ron Paul, Baby Boomers)
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The reality is, most millennial (myself included) are upset about Obama for the following:
1) He continued most of Bush's terrible policies 2) He ran on a liberal platform, but is basically a Republican center-right president
3) He passed the ACA instead of single-payer
4) More than ever, my generation is libertarian on social issues. The privacy violations are a big deal to us
It has nothing to do with "subsidizing." If anything, people in my generation want more of a European style ("socialism") living. We favor universal health care, more urbanization, and lower costs for higher education.
The bolded is what I hear most from younger people. Those who think this means young people will now be turning toward republicans are wrong.
The bolded is what I hear most from younger people. Those who think this means young people will now be turning toward republicans are wrong.
Young people moving toward Republicans is a lie to make the right-wing feel better about their coming collapse. Gen Y is overwhelmingly in favor of marriage equality, legalization of marijuana, and universal health care.
This doesn't mean young people are becoming more conservative, it just means we will be seeing the Democrats becoming more liberal to reflect their voters.
The reality is, most millennial (myself included) are upset about Obama for the following:
1) He continued most of Bush's terrible policies
2) He ran on a liberal platform, but is basically a Republican center-right president
3) He passed the ACA instead of single-payer
4) More than ever, my generation is libertarian on social issues. The privacy violations are a big deal to us
It has nothing to do with "subsidizing." If anything, people in my generation want more of a European style ("socialism") living. We favor universal health care, more urbanization, and lower costs for higher education.
You want a Europe life style fine, move to Europe.
You see because of the internet young people today know more about the world outside than any generation before them. It's also easier to travel than ever before. Young people get to see see other countries, like Europe, Canada, Australia where liberal, progressive policies resulted in minimal crime and harmonious growth of entire populations, without urban ghettos or white poverty in rural America.
These people know that progressive policies work as opposed to conservative policies which keep America dangerous and with widespread poverty underneath that shiny coat of macmansions and cookie-cutter strip malls.
Another reason republicans lost young voters is because they can't formulate a program. No, "less government, more freedom" is not a program, it's a meaningless slogan as for your young people "less government, more freedom" could only mean "gay rights and legalized marijuana" as these are the issues where they see the government as overreaching, and this is definitely not what the conservatives mean when they say "less government, more freedom". On these issues Republicans want "more government and less freedom" and young people know it.
Republican Party is doomed: it can't reach out to minorities, it can't reach out to women and it can't reach out to young people. Doomed, I tell ya.
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Originally Posted by texan2yankee
While the terminally stupid will never realize that their progressive vision for America has failed, that failure will soon become obvious to the generation that follows. I suspect most Millennials will wake up to reality, as they are the ones who will be stuck with the debt from the massive failed experiment. Good luck to 'em.
If we had that approach 200 years ago, we wouldn't be the nation we are today.
America is not the best at everything. People who have ventured outside of our borders know this. There is always room for improvement.
Really? I think that was one of the major reasons we became a nation in the first place, we wanted to do things our way, you want to live under a king? Move back to England..
Hey their is room for improvement, but you do not replace a failed system by replacing it with another failed system..
Who gives them the right to force their views and the culture of other nations on to the culture and people of this nation?
I guess it would be a good idea to have the US lose most of its youth.
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