Well, it’s according to Politico, that those like me
or, in other words, those who work for a living, who actually pay taxes and who
also tend to vote Republican, otherwise those known as our society’s adult
population, are aging rapidly and dying off faster than are their Democrat
counterparts. And what’s worse, as we
die off we’re being replaced by those who will come to make up our just as
rapidly expanding parasite class which consists primarily of those folks who
prefer to work as little as possible or who spend a great deal of their time
looking for ways to avoid having to work altogether. Of course few of these people also pay taxes,
getting, instead, a refund every year after having paid nothing in. Still not sure how that scam works.
But anyway, Politico states that the Republican
Party’s "core is dying off by the day," making 2016 a tough roll as
more youthful voters reliably turn to the Democrat Party in the hopes, of
course, of getting their fair share of
the ‘free stuff.’ Of course as more of
those who actually pick up the tab for all of that ‘free stuff’, these perspective
Democrat voters might be in for a rather rude awakening when there’s no one
left to pay for things. Politic says,
"Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average
Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections.
To make matters worse, or so according to Politic, the GOP is attracting fewer
first-time voters.
It was Politico's Daniel J. McGraw who wrote,
"Unless the party is able to make inroads with new voters, or discover a
fountain of youth, the GOP’s slow demographic slide will continue election to
election." McGraw used census data
for his look into age decline at the GOP. What he supposedly found was that "of the
61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead
by the 2016 election." By contrast, of those 66 million people who voted
for Barry “Almighty”, close to 2.3 million are unlikely to live to see the 2016
election play out. All of which lead
McGraw to the conclusion that: "That leaves a big gap in between, a
difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats."
McGraw's voter turnout rationale, however, did draw
a certain amount of ridicule from some of those who earn their living as
electorate experts. It was Brookings
Institution senior fellow William Frey that told Politico, "I’ve never
seen anyone doing any studies on how many dead people can’t vote." And he then went on to say, "I’ve seen
studies on how many dead people do vote. The old Daley Administration in
Chicago was very good at that." But
even Frey allowed that, indeed, the GOP would need to do more to nab younger
voters if it hoped to stay competitive in the future, and that includes staying
out of the social issue debate and focusing on issues that matter to a younger
generation.
Republicans do "rely too much on older and
white voters, and especially in rural areas, deaths from this group can be
significant,” Frey told Politico. He
said, “But millennials (born 1981 to 1997) now are larger in numbers than baby
boomers (1946 to 1964), and how they vote will make the big difference. And the data says that if Republicans focus
on economic issues and stay away from social ones like gay marriage, they can
make serious inroads with millennials.” Some
youth voting experts do think Republicans have a chance with the right
message. Millennials have been let down
by Democrats over the past seven years and are not looking for a repeat of the
same old Washington, D.C., agenda.
It is clear younger voters like change and are
embracing outsider candidates. In April,
political newcomer Ben Carson led a Harvard University Institute of Politics
poll of Republican primary voters under 30, The Washington Times reported. Carson, at 10 percent, headed off rivals
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (8 percent), and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and
former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who were both chosen by 7 percent of young
Republicans in the poll. Most telling,
however, was a third of those younger voters said they were undecided on a
primary choice, opening a window for candidates to win their interest, as
Harvard reported "no front-runner" among the crowded GOP presidential
primary field.
Our country now seems to have a great deal going
against it as we look off into the future.
The odds of it being able to survive much longer, at least in the form
that it was intended by our Founders, become slimmer with each new generation. And it’s quite sad, really, that fewer and
fewer ‘Americans’ seem to recognize what has always been so truly unique about
America. Freedom seems to be a
completely foreign commodity to a growing number of Americans. I would appear that they would rather be completely
dependent upon their government than on themselves. Which, to me, at least, would seem to be more
than a little bit risky. Because to do
so requires that one place an inordinate amount of trust in one’s government.
I think it fair to say that it has always been, and
still it today, it’s conservatives in this country who act as this nation’s
last line of defense. We are the only
ones who continue to support our Constitution as it was originally intended. We see very few of the gray areas seen by many
on the left. I can honestly say that I
have raised my soon-to-be 23 year old daughter to possess traditional American
values. While my family and I are not regular
church goers, that has far more to do with my dislike, and distrust, of organized
religion than anything else. A dislike
that goes all the way back to my childhood.
I’ve always been of the opinion that one needs not to attend church to
prove one is a Christian. What’s
important is believing in Christian values.
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