They’re catching up:
Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While independents and Democrats most often say their views haven’t changed, more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views have shifted to the right rather than to the left.
Call it, “hangover syndrome.”
Are the people moving more conservative, or do they find the culture becoming more liberal and they are being left behind?
And the RINOs make the mistake of moving with the culture portrayed in the main stream media and wonder why identification with the Republican party is dwindling.
I used to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat. During the Clinton era I registered Republican. I am now Unaffiliated. My view is that both parties left me in their slump to the left, victimhood mentality, nanny-statism, unfunded mandate control of state/local policies and destruction of the family and of the sense of individual responsibility. And what has been done to the educational system is beyond criminal.
There will be a reaction…if we are not all bought off with our children’s futures. If inflation due to billions of debt becoming trillions of debt materializes, the wake-up call will be heard. Beware California Dreaming.
Lex
Please do us all a favor and keep that graph of the projected debt up permanently somewhere on the blog board. By the most conservative estimates we’re only 4 plus trillion in the hole by the 2012 opportunity to send the idiot packing. Let’s see if “conservative” translates into any demanding of fiscal responsibility.
Wow – that’s a real palate cleanser this early in the morning.
They might be repossessing Joe’s paddles
http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/conservative-satire/new-biden-czar-has-hands-full/
I would be interesting to see how the answer to this question changes over time. I suspect that people are always getting more conservative because they are always getting older. If so, the question is whether they are getting conservative faster or slower than they have in the past.