Why Is Youth So Left-Wing?
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rmsharpe said:
As a youth i'm going to disagree with these quotes. I know how lucky I am to have been born in suburbia, never having to worry about food, shelter, health (or at least health costs), or fear (not even bullies because of the school I attend). I know how lucky I am to be able to play and talk about Civ4 without having to worry about cocaine on the streets or death from thirst. I also know how hard parents work for their offspring and how some people will take sacrifices to allow the next generation, me, to live a better life. Although I didn't work for the clothes on my back, I disagree with the suggested message that youths are brash, ignorant, and selfish.HounddogLGS said:
newfangle
hates you.
Ugh, every stereotype about the white suburban teen pop machine is completely true.
All we can do as a society is ignore them.
All we can do as a society is ignore them.
BasketCase
Username sez it all
Got into this thread late, and haven't read any of it yet, but I offer this--something you'll probably find surprising.
According to some statistics I found somewhere after the 2004 elections, the pattern was this: young voters leaned strongly to the left. Adult voters (i.e. working age) leaned strongly to the right. And then, around retirement age--they suddenly started leaning to the left again!
One could explain this from a person's shifting viewpoints as they get older. Young idealism is replaced by pragmatism is replaced by altruism as you draw nearer to death.
However, there's another, less kind explanation: young people have nothing, so they have nothing to lose. Grown-ups want to protect what they do have from being taxed out from under them. And as people get old, they start noticing those medical programs that are championed mostly by Democrats.
It could be plain old basic selfishness.
According to some statistics I found somewhere after the 2004 elections, the pattern was this: young voters leaned strongly to the left. Adult voters (i.e. working age) leaned strongly to the right. And then, around retirement age--they suddenly started leaning to the left again!
One could explain this from a person's shifting viewpoints as they get older. Young idealism is replaced by pragmatism is replaced by altruism as you draw nearer to death.
However, there's another, less kind explanation: young people have nothing, so they have nothing to lose. Grown-ups want to protect what they do have from being taxed out from under them. And as people get old, they start noticing those medical programs that are championed mostly by Democrats.
It could be plain old basic selfishness.
BasketCase said:
My explanation would go like this - you start off stupid, because you're young, then after getting some education and life-experience, you get smarter, and then once the old age comes, you get senile, and stupid again...
Zardnaar
Deity
I'm 27 and regard myself as right wing on alot of areas- basically take a harden up pill and sort your life out but liberal on religeon, abortion etc. Christians (vocal ones anyway) in general annoy me.
