Desmond Hawkins
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Why am I so left wing? Well like many my age, I never fell for any of that religious junk, and it so happens to be the right-wing that usually tried to jam it down my throat.
Why Is Youth So Left-Wing?
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Mise
isle of lucy
What I meant was, left wingers, by virtue of their beliefs, care about people who are less fortunate than themselves. Thus, they have a greater sense of empathy, that is, they can put themselves in other people's shoes better. This is what I meant by open-minded, and it will always lead to a more moderate viewpoint.SeleucusNicator said:
In short, it is easier for a left winger to realise that things are not black and white, and hence become more moderate more easily.
Verbose
Deity
May not even be Swedish. It's just quoted a lot.Mise said:I thought that was a famous saying. I was trying to remember it properly for ages now but I couldn't! Thanks for bringing it up
Verbose said:May not even be Swedish. It's just quoted a lot.
I thought churchill said that.
i knew a couple of kids who quit wanting to be liberals after they started to pay taxes. I was mad for maybe, oh, 10 min. then I remembered what my check went to...
my dad is bipolar and disabled. He cant work. Our taxes help pay for his disabilty
Me and My mom work for Schools. Our salaries, from taxes
My school's supplies and computers. taxes
I think part of my soccer league is paid for by local taxes
Since I profit so much from state programs, I dont see a problem in paying back a little of what I work to earn back.
If other Youth knew exactly how much they profit from state programs, they wouldnt care too much about taxing either
Duddha
His Dudeness
I really don't think youth has a serious effect on people's political beliefs. Parents, geographic location, education, generation(which one), current events, religious beliefs, and personal interests, all play a much more important role.
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
MattBrown said:
Special interest rules, again.
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
You justify taking from one group to please another, because it will benefit you to please that group.
Mise
isle of lucy
I disagree. I only know two people who voted Conservative in the last election a few weeks ago. There is only one Conservative society in my university, and it's numbers are small compared with the liberal and left wing societies. The liberal and left wing societies do more stuff too. But I guess that's the point; youths are passionate, and its easier to be passionate about inequality and injustice than Margret Thatcher.Duddha said:
Duddha
His Dudeness
Mise said:
So, the current youthful generation is liberal. Twenty years ago they we're conservative, and probably will be again in twenty years.
addiv
Hero of our time
I don't think most of the youth is left-wing. When I was in high school most people were conservative. Maybe university students are slightly more left-wing (depends a lot on which study they are doing though) than the general population, but not the youth in general. They're usually not much into politics anyway.
Desmond Hawkins
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Most youth don't know enough about politics to care, or have an informed opinion. Of the informed, a larger amount are conservative (from my Alberta experience).
Sanaz
Gorilla Joe
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."Verbose said:
-- Winston Churchill
I guess Churchill is a modern Swede.
MarineCorps
Explosion!
I am 17 but am definintly not Left wing. I hate both the right and left wing.
BloodyPepperoni
King
Most youth are students, and studies are damn expensive, and would be unaffordable to many young people without massive government support.
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
I also think the basic assumption is wrong. "Youth" isn't generally more left-wing than the population at large. In some areas that might be the case, in other it will be opposite. The same with time. Most people, young and old, are basically unpolitical.
There also seems to be some truth in the idea that many youth (i.e. teenagers) tend to be "rebellious" towards their parents' generations, at least in modern Western countries.
I think that gave people the wrong impression that youth would be Liberal, simply because they were for some time as their parents (the generations of the 30s to 50s) were rather very Conservative.
If you look at today's generation (here in Germany at least) there is alot a truth in saying that it is more right-wing, more Capitalist and more ignorant than their parents who grew up in the 60s and 70s. They don't rebel against authority because there is not that much of it, they rather "rebel" against things like solidarity, which was rather "in" for their parents' generation.
And finally there certainly is also some truth in the idea that some people get more moderate when they "settle down", which goes far beyond politics.
However, none of this is universal.
There also seems to be some truth in the idea that many youth (i.e. teenagers) tend to be "rebellious" towards their parents' generations, at least in modern Western countries.
I think that gave people the wrong impression that youth would be Liberal, simply because they were for some time as their parents (the generations of the 30s to 50s) were rather very Conservative.
If you look at today's generation (here in Germany at least) there is alot a truth in saying that it is more right-wing, more Capitalist and more ignorant than their parents who grew up in the 60s and 70s. They don't rebel against authority because there is not that much of it, they rather "rebel" against things like solidarity, which was rather "in" for their parents' generation.
And finally there certainly is also some truth in the idea that some people get more moderate when they "settle down", which goes far beyond politics.
However, none of this is universal.
Verbose
Deity
They did give him the Nobel Prize for litterature.Sanaz said:I guess Churchill is a modern Swede.
Might explain whay they take licences with his quotes.
Oruc
Reactionary
im 17 and im not left wing. i couldnt care less about politics, until people start shoving it down your throat. my college was infested with anti-war people who wanted to free Iraq or some crap and stop the arms trade, i mean if it makes money i dont see the problem, people like that really annoy me
