The GOP’s Youth Problem
It’s easy to pass this off on public schools and the universities as they have absolutely become centers for liberal indoctrination (my seven year old came home the other day full of stories about Earth Day and how we’re all going to perish in a fiery apocalypse of global warming if daddy doesn’t sell his SUV immediately), but in large part I blame the GOP too.
Idealism is what attracts young people, and the GOP has been decidedly bereft of idealism since the mid-1990’s. Republicans are supposed to be the low-tax, limited-government, increased-freedoms people but they haven’t stayed true to that brand, and so young Americans are tending not to trust the GOP these days. And for good reason.
Think about it: Why is McDonald’s a ubiquitous landmark all over America? Heck, all over the industrialized world? Because for better or worse, when you go to a McDonald’s you know what you’re getting.
With the GOP, people (especially the young) know what they’re supposed to be getting, but they also know that the reality isn’t often matching the pitch any more.
