The Democrats’ 2016 mistake
Read this if you care about where we are going, because it does provide a chilling prediction of something I can point to in fact: We will soon have a country that will predominately elect Progressive Democrats. I cite Oregon as an example: You can run a criminal candidate (like the beast, but our was John Kitzhaber), who then immediately resigns to avoid prosecution (which worked) and then the unelected candidate sails into office with only 3 counties voting her in. The beast won Oregon because 3 counties went her way. 90% of the state voting for Trump. If you look at the voting map of Oregon, it should scare you, because soon, as soon as they wake up, they will take and seize power for good, as they gather more and more special interests groups. This guy has it right, when they get their act together, they will be able to consistently win, with it being a 52-48 vote and it will steadily tilt in their direction as more of the uneducated masses graduate High School and drink the Koolaid. The rural voters saved the day, because the cities failed to show up, maybe because they assumed she would win, but the system will still slowly turn to where you will be unable to assemble enough people with the ability to think things through, see beyond the smoke, and realize they have been had.Trump only won by a hair in some states, had they really gotten their vote out, he would have lost. As long as they use the populated areas to their advantage, a smaller (in area) group will start dictating to the larger (in area) part of the country, what kind of crazy stuff will happen, and then expect the larger part to pay for it. Like free college, paying off student loans, etc, they will be on the great giveaway in 4 years.
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"It assumes, too, that younger voters don’t grow more ideologically diverse as they age. According to an analysis by the Democratic group Third Way, Gen Xers — my generation — grew markedly more conservative in the decade between 2000 and 2011. There’s not much reason to think millennials will remain stuck where they are, either."
This statement carries a double edged sword, the change in philosophy stems, IMHO, for the reality check that happens when you have to go to work, look at your paycheck, and see 30-40% gone to the state for all the happy crap. My concern is that The Beast counted on things she did not have a right to count on, but that the NEXT one will. The manipulative nature of Bernie should scare everyone, he had a Trump like appeal, and had he not been sabotaged by his own party, might have won. Both Hillary and Bernie engaged in one upmanship in promising the moon and beyond to the snowflakes, and only when Bernie went away tdid Hillary retire to her cave and think great thoughts on how great she is. That will not be the case next time, and they will have 4 more years of new snowflakes flopping around ready to feed at the trough. That may kill off any chances unless a lot of improvements are seen in the next 4 years. The power of corruption and the free giveaway is strong, especially to people to untrained in critical thought to ask how are you going to pay for all this. The greatest improvement could be to have a civics class that teaches TANSTAAFL and what it really means, that might help stem their influence. Thanks for the reply.
There is something to the notion that population density breeds greater "groupthink".
Let us hope people can learn and change, so that it is not as you predict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgqtL...
Respectfully,
O.A.
Two quotes from the article:
"But that’s making another dubious assumption — that because any bloc of voters is reliably in one camp today, they’ll still be there 10 years from now. "
"It assumes, too, that younger voters don’t grow more ideologically diverse as they age."
Obama lost 5% of the African-American vote in 2008 and 7% in 2012. By contrast, Hillary lost 12% of the African-American vote in 2016.while running against the alleged racist Donald Trump. A similar phenomenon played out with progressives' other "core constituencies".
The actual lesson here is that demography is not destiny. The progressives' political base is slowly waking up and turning on its leaders. It's not time to throw in the towel yet.
I agree with your basic comment though. As long as the young are brainwashed in statist biased schools they will vote more for socialism and the American experiment will end in failure due to domestic enemies.