Thursday, June 28, 2007

There Is Hope Yet

This NY Times article provides a glimmer of hope for the future. Instead of welfare for the rich, unelected emperors, right wing theocracy and nose thumbing foreign policy, we may have more reasonable governments in the future.

By a 52 to 36 majority, young Americans (under 30) say that Democrats, rather than Republicans, come closer to sharing their moral values, while 58 percent said they had a favorable view of the Democratic Party, and 38 percent said they had a favorable view of Republicans. I can attest that both of my under 30 kids are pretty liberal Democrats. Thankfully.

The pendulum of political orientation swings periodically and basically the conservatives have held sway since the late 70's. I remember some of the early politically active students in my class began to turn Republican. It was scary, since what I saw was that they partied, used drugs, screwed anything that walked, yet were "conservative". It was Republican hypocrisy in its infancy. Pursuit of the job and the dollar and the big time began to consume a generation. The "Me First" world was born.

The rest of the world has progressed socially and economically and especially educationally and the US has fallen behind. Fast. But the damage has been done, they feel that they will be worse off than their parents. Probably true as the parents have largely destroyed the world. The house of cards built on cheap credit and high powered jobs is collapsing.

But hope springs eternal, maybe this generation will be more reasonable... and liberal. It seems more than hope, it may just be reality.

NYT Young Americans Leaning Left

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The key will be to sustain a Congressional majority so that the Treasury raids of Reagan-Bush-Bush doesn't happen again. We spent the Clinton years painfully paying our way out of the horrid Reagan decade of budget-busting spending, and I'm dying to know how we're going to do it after this Bush.

I watch the business news today and the economy grew at 0.6% the previous quarter and 0.7% the last quarter, and what did the cable news networks report? THE ECONOMY IS GROWING! THE ECONOMY IS GREAT!

Even Orwell's anus is tired of being fisted by the repubs' weird twist of language day after day.

Here's the sad part. Most of my old liberal friends and relatives became conservatives somewhere down the line. And because that whole mentality and its nonstop insanity —
War is great, but don't ask ME to sign up; Kill all criminals, but let my guy walk free; I can call you any name I want and wish terrorists would kill you, but you shouldn't be offended when networks keep putting me on show after show exclusively for the entire hour; a blowjob is a criminal and impeachable offense; spying, torture, gaming elections, refusing to obey laws and subpoenas, doing everything possible to ruin the country for eight straight years is okay!
— I've abandoned all those relatiionships and haven't had contact with them for several years now.

Maybe with the growing Latino segment also voting 58% Dem, we may be able to hold onto the majority for a while. Once the Democrat gets elected President and takes office in '09, watch the entire media industrial complex of radio, newspapers, cable and network TV to go batshit crazy 24/7 calling for their assassination. Bush is down to 26% in the polls, but my 74% can't buy time on TV or radio!

No matter, I get my info from blogs anyway, yeeehhhawww!