Yup, the GOP is f'd with young people

[freshwest]

39. I agree with both of you strongly. Also note the higher consistency of GOP as conservative vs. those

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Kos is calling liberal. I'm not buying it for a second. although I like that he says there is no generational divide, the rest of the graph doesn't prove what he says. And Pew is by no means one of the less reliable polling groups, either.

The Libertarian brand is strong among youth as a version of rebellion against the status quo and that's not a bad thing. It's perfectly normal, but it doesn't alway lead to a liberal outcome. Most generations had that period in their life and some or us have never left it because there is wrongdoing in this world that must be resisted. But isn't the same kind of revolution occuring people that we want to have.

Conservative youth groups, even extremely radical conservative groups now surround us around the globe, but some are in deep denial about that. ISIS is not for old people. Aryan skinheads, Neo Nazis, Boko Harum, Putin youth and other radical groups are undeniably YOUNG.

Some progressive and liberals think that younger people will pledge to the ideals they have, when there is no sign of them doing any such thing. The rebranding of conversative, Bircher ideology works very well. It's trendy to be an Infowarrior or go with other such believers. They have found a new truth for the young... haha.

But they are unwittingly supporting the Koch view of the future, which is unabashedly conservative in results, and they are loving it. Kos is whistling by the graveyard like most have been for years. Mainly with knee jerk cries of outrage and stunned disbelief at what CONS are doing to America.

The CONS do not hide what they are doing when they get in power, and they are hiding less of it as they have gotten more as they run for office now. Many who say they 'would never dare because it's crazy, inhumane or sociopathic,' need to take off their rose-colored glasses and face what's up.

Additionally, reading the comments were complaints about voting nor being made easy enough for youth to get out to vote. One said that it SHOULD be made easier and THEN they would vote.

What's with this SHOULD be when it's us who must MAKE it be? Who is to make it easier when the GOP is in charge of most states, deliberately making it so hard? Not those who complain about how hard it is to vote. They didn't vote before, and now don't understand why it's hard?

It was youth and people of all ages who got out and voted Barack Obama, some of them waiting all night in adverse weather, and it was NOT EASY.

And for those waiting for 'that special someone' to bother to get out and vote, those people are easy to vote for getting online with 'American Idol' where it's made easy to vote for corporate entertainers and begging contestants. The spectacle is degrading to the performers, and people don't realize it, they think it's how life should be.

Politicans are not rock stars or celebrities. But that's pretty much what people are demanding. And while their views may be liberal, it doesn't mean they're going to vote for a liberal politican. As they have been convinced there is no difference in the two main parties.

That has been a constant Libertarian refrain for decades. Because the other two main parties are not Libertarian, thus they're the same to them. But they may complete their conquest of the GOP soon. And apathy always serves the status quo.

JMHO.