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payer universal psychoanlyst health care initiative in the near future! ;-)
So, to sum up your excellent diary, Republicans are totally hosed unless people get more and more stupid with the passing of time and start believing that wingers are good and conservatism is all encompassing of all socio-economic groups in America?
Nah, never happen.
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by funluvn1 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:54:15 AM PDT
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Idiocracy? I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen, although I hope it won't. People getting dumber with the passage of time, that is.
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by ubertar on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:40:13 AM PDT
are trying to do to public education (cough, NCLB, cough) and to higher education (make it unaffordable for middle and lower-class students through various maneuvers) I wouldn't be surprised if kids' ability to reason continues its downward drift.
by el dorado gal on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:48:58 AM PDT
carry too much info for that to happen, and with the increased availability of broadband, more's to come.
I think (hope) the upcoming generation will be too well informed to fall for the GOP's scams like the current (in power) generation has.
A Pew Research poll from earlier this year supports my own observations. Gen Y is coming better prepared to the fight than Gen X or my own generation were.
by scoff0165 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:39:11 AM PDT
I think you may be a bit too optimistic. Gen Y, of which I'm a member, seems to be the most self-centered, morally bankrupt, apathetic group of people I've had the displeasure of associating with. Having an unprecedented amount of information and knowledge immediately available is useless if most people would rather spend a couple hours trying to drum up their number of myspace friends.
Self entitlement and outright greed seem to be the gods of my generation, and the policies and ideas of GOP acelebrate and idolize them.
Open your eyes. Open your mouth. Close your hand. And make a fist.
by IfTheseHands on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:10:25 PM PDT
all gen "y"'s... I have not met (and have much exposure to) many younger folks who think past themselves. There seems to be a natural progression from that narcissism to an interest in something not themselves.
Speaking from the X generation (im 33, am I a W?) I still am frustrated at the lack of interest in the news of the day, perhaps even my generation doesn't want to see what color Brittany's panties are run over and over again on a Serious News Network...
by califdem on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:28:31 PM PDT
They are the biggest audience for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, overwhelmingly so. That shows good taste, and of course, smarts!!!
John Mccain - The death of social security
by horatius on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:01:14 PM PDT
one of the younger members of so-called "generation x", a name we certainly didn't choose for ourselves any more than the previous so-called, "me generation". There was no W, and if there was, it's not you.
by ubertar on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:27:36 PM PDT
That's exactly what everyone said about my generation (X) when we were younger.
I think it's just a function of being younger. Maybe some life experience, health problems, kids, aging parents, are what kick the average person into an interest in politics (assuming they're ever going to develop one).
I've actually hired a long string of college students as babysitters (they tend to graduate, I've never had one more than a year and usually have 2 or 3 in rotation), and even including the ones I didn't hire, that sample looks like a good future to me - good minds, good hearts. No clue if they vote though.
"Civility costs nothing and buys everything." - Mary Wortley Montagu
by sarac on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:09:59 PM PDT
I'm too old to have a letter, but that's how I viewed my cohort at that age. I'm more optimistic now! And this group will turn out fine as well. :>)
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." Bonhoeffer~~~~~ Start here: freerice.com
by LAMaestra on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:32:41 PM PDT
I have a long string of teenagers (18-20 years old) come through my house each week. I always ask them if they are registered, and if not I give them a voter registration form on the spot, and make them fill it out then and there. I mail it for them.
Then, next election, I ask them if they voted, and most say yes. You just have to help them over the inertia that develops naturally at that age.
"Even if [BUSH] weren't a complete idiot, which he is, he'd still be an asshole." Digby
by Bob Friend on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:50:34 PM PDT
Yes, a lot of middle class white kids growing up in suburbia are likely to have access to the t00bz, but urban an rural poor kids are unlikely to have those advantages. And just because somebody has access to the information, doesn't mean they will use it. Kids use the internet for social networking, mostly, not self-education.
'Part of what makes America so beautiful is that there is no such thing as someone who looks like an American' - Barack Obama
by RichM on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:59:23 PM PDT
Kids use the internet for social networking, mostly, not self-education.
That exposure is, in itself, an influence. Kids'll come across ideas they'd never have imagined. They'll get educated whether they know it or not.
by scoff0165 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:04:16 PM PDT
Kids weren't getting "educated" thirty years ago reading "trash" by Hunter S. Thompson and Thomas McGuane, or perhaps even Rolling Stone for that matter. Which goes to show that education is pretty much subjective...
"Pardon me, I thought you were a trout stream"
by frankzappatista on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:49:18 PM PDT
and "Idiocracy" is political saitire dynamo.
Fantastic Diary! Wish I could "Super-Duper" Rec!
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by jds1978 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:59:32 AM PDT
9-11 changed everything? Well, Katrina changed it back.
by varro on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:29:15 PM PDT
'cuz it's got... electabilities!
by AmirBukfifti on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:10:03 PM PDT
Force lower middle class and poor voters into sensory deprivation chambers into which is piped in, over and over again, the 63 page speech by John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged."
Don't let them out until they accuse themselves of being "looters" for even THINKING about universal health care coverage.
"Mom, did you hurt yourself, or are you yelling at the TV again?
by litigatormom on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:58:49 PM PDT
wide narrow
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