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drinkthe-koolaid:

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wilwheaton:

It is absolutely worth your time to read this entire post. It give me some hope for the future.

As millennials mature, we’re learning that education and jobs and capitalism and presidents and life are presented to us much differently than they are in reality.

That’s a general evolution in the early twenties, granted, but, again, I just don’t see the Republicans appealing to my generation by fervently maintaining the same tired Bushisms of the past and hoping no one notices. Honestly, why are all young adults “liberal?” Because there’s no real conservatism anymore. We’re not old enough to remember any kind of Republican other than Bush. What are we supposed to think?

Like any generation before us, millennials have been defined by a series of landmark events: experiencing 9/11 as a preteen or teen, the colorful and diverse corruption and murderous deceit exposed throughout the Bush administration, the Glenn Beck Show’s fomenting of political paranoia and unimaginable partisanship, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the burgeoning global powers overseas, the advent of the internet, the availability of thought leadership channels like MSNBC, Huffington Post, Fox News, and NewsMax rather than journalism and intelligent, measured debate.

We are 80 million Americans who will be defining politics for decades to come and we’ve grown up in a world where politics has become increasingly harder to define. Whatever it is, it’s apparently not a system of thoughtful leaders seeking compromise for the betterment of all. 

Republican extinction in action. The ideas and the players within the party are outdated and tired. You can only freak out homophobes and the intellectually dim for so long.

I call shenanigans. There are plenty of conservative young people, not to mention tons of libertarians.

There are, and I know plenty, but from a generational perspective the demographics skew much more liberal across the population as a whole. 

yeah, but when people get older it’s common for their views to skew back to the right. hence why a lot of older people vote republican. now if we are actually becoming a more liberal society we won’t know for years. hopefully, but i’m sure the hippies thought in the 60’s that were were finally turning the corner. and now i’ve seen the drummer of the Velvet Underground at a Tea Party rally. so yeah…

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