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Originally Posted by JerseyG
Young people grow up.
So no.
That's exactly what happened to me. As the young folks start living in the real world, many of them begin to realize the folly of many liberal ideas as unrealistic.
Young people are usually liberal until they have to start paying more in taxes.
Judging from the tea party movement, conservatism is far from dead. If anything, I'd say liberalism's strength has been diminished since its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.
As many have noted, the Tea Party is primarily older, white, rural people. There's not really a future in it.
All the bigoted aspects of conservatism will fade with time, but the core of small government and independence and all that good stuff will remain.
Pretty much. I don't see many votes for these so called "libertarians". The vast majority of conservatives are Republicans despite what you and your Ron Paul/Constitutional Party fringees want to believe. There aren't that many of you.
"What Gallup found was that 23 percent of the voting-age population identifies itself as "libertarian."
If that 23% number is correct. There are more libertarians than liberals.
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Originally Posted by RVA-Jsn20
Yes.
My guess would be that most of the self proclaimed moderates on that list actually vote democrat.
This is a map of political ideology. Let me explain the numbers to you.
71% of Republicans are conservative, but only 3% are liberal. On the other hand, 39% of democrats are liberal, and 21% are conservative.
That means, conservatives are seven times more likely to be a democrat than a liberal to be a Republican. If there was party unity among conservatives, liberals wouldn't stand a chance.
Will it die? Where you've been, it already has. True Conservative principles have been raped, pillaged and killed by the fiscally frivolous and those unaware of the separation of Church and State which is one of the foundational principles of our democracy.
I hope that someday, the Republicans will go back to their roots.
True, but the individual claimed that liberal voters live in ghettos, when in reality many liberal voters live in the wealthiest, most successful communities in our country. The same is true for various aspects of conservative voters, but that's not what the poster was speaking of.
Hopefully. Conservatism has no place in a progressive and intellectual society.
I agree with your statement. Fortunately, we live in a Conservative society. No one is intellectual enough to "know what's best" for me or anyone else.
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that about sums it up!
