Are more young people more CONSERVATIVE than we think?

Question

I hear alot of college people my age that agree more with the republican party. Most of the media says that young people want a liberal as a president, but young people have a way of not doing exactly what the media tells us to do. Its all good if you agree with liberals that want to legalize pot, let gays get married, or make factories out of unborn babies. But most young people don't want a no boundaries person to be the president. I hear that many young people are patriotic.

Answer 1

who's "we" babyboomers? uhh boomers tend to all agree, but the republican party doesn't agree with the republican party, except that liberals are commies and blah blah and the gospel of john wayne...i think young people (with the exception of spoiled frat children) see right through the BS of both parties. Yougins might be aprehensive to pay for the spas and saunas of the boomer-generation after they squandered Social Security, healthcare, the value of the dollar, Welfare so-on so-forth

Answer 2

As someone who was a teenager in the 1970s I think one huge difference beetween teens of the 60s and 70s and those of today is that the draft has been eliminated. So teens today are not nearly as upset about the war as teens in the 60s and 70s were because today's teens see the war as something that's no danger to them.

Of course the phrasing of your question has a very narrow view of what liberalism is. You excluded some important elements:

Liberals are more likely to favor access to opportunities, such as education, based on merit rather than on wealth.

Liberals have a bias toward caring for those who are unable to care for themselves.

I don't think many liberals want to legalize pot, but anyone who has looked at the costs and benefits can see that locking people up for using or selling small quantities of marijuana is just stupid.

Without a government endorsement of a particular religion, which would be unconstitutional, I don't see any legal basis for not allowing members of the same gender to form some type of legalling binding financial union.

If you are referring to stem-cell research as "making factories out of unborn babies" you need to get enrolled in Biology 101, if in fact you are actually enrolled in a college.

If by "patriotic" you mean someone who loves their country, what could be more patriotic than not wanting a president who lies to start a war, endorses torture, and overspends by more than all previous presidents combined?

Answer 3

The better educated youth are more liberal. Those like yourself (c.f. the literacy and logic of your post) are more conservative.

Intelligent = liberal
Stupid = conservative

Karl Rove, Cheney, G.W. Bush and many another conservative couldn't hack it in college. When they had to think critically and couldn't, they blamed the "liberal" (meaning, "thinking") professor who made them question their imbecilic beliefs.

Allen Bloom, the CONSERVATIVE who wrote "The Closing of the American Mind", said that college was the one and only opportunity people have to come up with beliefs different than their parents'. How deeply threatening a real university must be to conservatives, who, by definition, want to "conserve" traditional values, like hating gays, treating non-white people as inferior, wife-beating, every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost in a rigged marketplace, etc. This surely accounts for the existence of "stupid colleges" -- colleges which aren't really colleges, like Bob Jones University, which cater to the stupid, i.e., conservatives, thus filling an unmet market need.

We used to speak fondly of a "liberal education", before the propaganda machine fueled by rich fascists like Coors and Scaife got rolling and turned "liberal" into a dirty word, for the gullible. Wise up, pal. Get an education -- a liberal education. My grandmother was an illiterate Lithuanian peasant, but she was smart enough to know that.

Answer 4

I'd say most young people are conservative. In fact, the younger the more conservative they appear to be.

My 8 month old son, for example. WAY Conservative in his values, behavior and ethics. That's for sure.

Answer 5

yes and no...The conservative youths are very vocal and have an opinion. But there is also the liberal youths who don't know anything so they just side with a buddy and keep quiet.

Answer 6

To answer your question;

I believe your right. My logic, you go to college to get a degree. You get a degree, to earn more than you would have if you did not. If you adopt socialism then the government will allow some HS dropout to live as well as you do. So the question is, why did I work to earn a degree?

Answer 7

True, most are smart enough to know the trade off for legal weed is not as important since the democrats want terrorist coming to the USA and sawing heads off and stoning women to death for getting raped

Answer 8

That's not what I'm hearing or seeing (bumper stickers, protests) in my college town.

Answer 9

The more intelligent ones are Conservative.

Answer 10

No. Young people are more liberal.