Republicans Dying Off - Look At This Survey - 62 to 29 Millennials

[PaulX2]

Dying Republicans are being replaced by liberals.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/new-survey-young-staying-liberal-conservatives-dying-off.html

And every day it gets worse.

This is why it is so important to pack the SCOTUS with corporate owned right wing scum. The only way the billionaires can hold onto power. This is why Bernie's message of "we're an oligarchy" was so popular with so many million "younger" folks (and myself).

The GOP knows they can't gerrymander or voter suppress their way out of this. They need either a dictatorship (possibly coming) or some sort of coup where what the people actually want is always overruled by what the corporations want. The supreme court can pretty much legislate as they feel. Just look at Citizen's United. Our founding fathers would have them hung.....

Demographics. I hope we survive long enough for it to matter.

[Meadowoak]

1. It can't happen too soon!

[Power 2 the People]

6. +1000

[brush]

2. Pls let the millennials come out and vote as much as boomers and genXers.

If they do we'll at least take the House in Nov., maybe even the Senate the way the repugs are alienating women with this Kavanaugh fiasco.

[crazycatlady]

17. Their voter turnout isn't off from previous generations at their age

[brush]

19. These are critical times. All generations need to up their turnout.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Dissonant use of the word "worse". nt

[Caliman73]

7. Context is important.

It is getting worse, for conservatives. In the meantime, the situation of liberals grows worse because the cornered animal is at its most dangerous. The Republicans know that they represent a shrinking demographic. As the country becomes more diverse, their ability to recall a time, "when things were better" fades. Their appeal to greed also falls on fewer and fewer ears, but they are much more likely to use desperate measures to maintain their power.

In the long run, there will be a shift and Republicans will likely loose their hold on power, however, as the OP said, the danger is thinking what shape the country and the people will be in when that happens.

[DetlefK]

4. That's because the whole culture and mentality is different nowadays.

Nowadays, kids grow up with social media. Society is more interconnected than ever. All sorts of political and social issues influence these kids from elementary school onward.

"Millennials are killing the napkin-industry!"
"Millennials are killing the diamond-industry!"
Yes, these are real lamentations that smart people have written for business-magazines.

Millennials are more driven by a spiritual culture than a materialistic one. Millennials care more about experiences (e.g. travel) than about precious possessions like napkins and diamonds.

Republicans can not speak to that. Republicans are the party of money, the party of I-got-mine-so-screw-others. Millennials want more than that. They want a message that speaks to them on an intellectual and spiritual level. Republicans have long since abandoned that in their quest for absolutist power.

[FSogol]

12. "Millennials are killing...." Sounds more like desperate click-bait by lazy writers. n/t

[workinclasszero]

5. Won't do one bit of good unless they VOTE!

Sitting on your ass bitching about life in Dump's Amerikkka will do absolutely nothing to change things!

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APRIL 2, 2018

Voter turnout rates in presidential elections, by generation



http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials-approach-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate/ft_16-05-13_millennialvoters_turnout-2/

[George II]

9. Precisely. Over the years the highest % turnout age group is seniors. I guess that's why....

....some are hoping we die off quickly.

[ehrnst]

13. Thank you! (nt)

[George II]

8. Looks like you're rooting for older Americans to die off?

As a YOUNG 70-year old, this whole premise is insulting and disturbing.

[budkin]

10. Is anyone surprised?

Their party has been trying to return to the 50s since 1980

[yortsed snacilbuper]

11. tonald drump is dead from the neck up?

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. That "we are an oligarchy" which YOU brought up, NOT ME might be why we are in the

shit hole we are in now, eh!

Think about it.

[standingtall]

15. If the demographics continue to shift in our favor

and the right wing keeps running to the supreme court to stop progressive legislation for them, Democrats will have choice to add Supreme court justices. If it ever it that bad I think they will and I think they should already once we get back the Congress,Senate and the Presidency.

[Awsi Dooger]

16. I've made this point on many sites

Bottom line the Silent Generation born 1928-1945 was predisposed to think like Republicans, based on approval rating of the president when they turned 18 years old. That simple criteria holds up beyond anything I'm aware of. Eisenhower had huge approval ratings while Truman average 45%.

Obviously there are great Democrats from that generation.

Younger seniors are not predisposed to think Republican. They turned 18 during the '60s. It is more balanced to slightly blue. Via mortality realities alone, we fare better among seniors right now than in 2016, and it will continue to improve.

Essentially, Trump's electoral margin of victory is now dead. I saw GOP pundit Mark Murphy make that point on CNN recently.

[NickB79]

18. Don't assume Millennial instantly equals liberal

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-millennials-politics-conservative-20160907-snap-story.html

National polls suggest millennials will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by large margins in November, but that doesn't mean millennials lean further to the left than young people of previous generations.

On the contrary, according to a new study, a larger percentage of millennials identified as conservative during their last year of high school than did Baby Boomers and GenXers when they were the same age.

Let's hope this study is either not accurate, or that Trump has soured them in the past 2 years to the GOP.

[oasis]

20. Dying off eh? Shoulda been in favor of healthcare.