Republicans more informed than Democrats

[Westside Steve]

http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/1357-pew-research-republicans-more-knowledgeable-than-democrats

 

WSS

 

(couldn't find a link from the Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live or Everybody Loves Raymond)

[gftChris]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

[sadbrownsfan]

http://www.people-press.org/2012/04/11/what-the-public-knows-about-the-political-parties/

 

Link to the actual data\findings. Who do they get to do these polls, in the part of which party supports... not a single one was over 80%?

 

[Westside Steve]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

I believe that. I just didn't realize you were that young.

WSS

[sadbrownsfan]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

 

Just a hair outside of that age range, but not an atheist.

[gftChris]

I believe that. I just didn't realize you were that young.

WSS

I'm 28. Apparently I seem older - which isn't the case in person, I can assure you!

[Westside Steve]

I'm 28. Apparently I seem older - which isn't the case in person, I can assure you!

Heh.It's probably your accent.

There were some interesting points in the polls you posted. I would imagine that those numbers change over time, being that most young kids are liberal at any point in history. I certainly was even though I'm kind of liberal, at least for a Nazi.

WSS

[The Cysko Kid]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

I guess that would put me on the last year of generation X or whatever. Generation X sounds cooler than millennial anyway.

[The Cysko Kid]

Fuck voting democrat just to support Democrats though. I think I'd much more properly be described as agnostic over atheistic as well.

[gftChris]

I suspect that if 60% of millenials declare themselves as liberal, then of those, maybe 75% will still be liberal when they're 50. However, if there are 60% of millenials as liberals today, in 5 years we might see 62% liberal. For example.

[Westside Steve]

Quite possibly Chris. Of course liberals over there are different than liberals over here and I would just assume that human beings [generally] tend to become more conservative as they get in more life experience.

WSS

[gftChris]

Quite possibly Chris. Of course liberals over there are different than liberals over here and I would just assume that human beings [generally] tend to become more conservative as they get in more life experience.

WSS

Certainly we're not born with the idea that one race, religion or whatever is superior to another. We gain opinions (prejudices?) as we get older based on life experience and any propaganda we fall prey to. So it seems logical that we get more conservative as we get older.

[The Cysko Kid]

Liberals have this pie in the sky idea that life is fair. It isn't.

[The Cysko Kid]

I should say young liberals. Old liberals seem to be jaded douchey tolerance nazis

[Westside Steve]

Certainly we're not born with the idea that one race, religion or whatever is superior to another. We gain opinions (prejudices?) as we get older based on life experience and any propaganda we fall prey to. So it seems logical that we get more conservative as we get older.

But we are, I think, born with a naturally contrary streak. We start out through our adolescence resisting the authority of what we see as the older generation. Usually that encompasses championing some of these groups that generation disapproves of. (just to address your point) sooner or later you get the feeling that at least some scum bags are just scum bags and not just misunderstood.

WSS

[Pumpkin Eater]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

With age comes wisdom.

[gftChris]

With age comes wisdom.

And dementia, false teeth and hip operations.

[calfoxwc]

Let's hope, Chris, that you accrue wisdom before the other three.

[gftChris]

Let's hope, Chris, that you accrue wisdom before the other three.

Let's hope someone on this board does at some point. Even then, he'd probably get ridiculed for his crazy ideas.

[Osiris]

Pew center has some interesting reports. Currently reading:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/

 

Millenials (Age 18-33 - myself, woody, osiris, anyone else?) are more likely to be atheist, vote democrat, be in favour of gay marriage and legalising marijuana.

I'm 39, not quite a millennial. Perhaps that's why I'm probably a little more conservative than you and Woody.

[MLD Woody]

Heh.It's probably your accent.

There were some interesting points in the polls you posted. I would imagine that those numbers change over time, being that most young kids are liberal at any point in history. I certainly was even though I'm kind of liberal, at least for a Nazi.

WSS

I thought I was the Nazi?

[MLD Woody]

My generation's views on things like gay marriage and weed won't change as we get older. We won't trade our liberal beliefs of today for the conservative beliefs of today. Instead, our liberal beliefs now will become the conservative views of tomorrow as new liberal, progressive ideas emerge.

 

At one point letting a man and woman of a different race marry was a liberal belief. Now, limiting it to that point is a conservative belief.

[calfoxwc]

Woody - you don't really have a generation to speak for.

 

"My generation thinks "x""

 

bullcrap. Your generation is made up of young folks who go into the service,

go on welfare, vote rep and dem and ind, are Christians and not,

 

an entire generation isn't available for little old woodpecker to hang his ego on.

 

For a woodpecker who hangs most all his beliefs on science, you really contradict yourself

with these generalizations all about... what you believe.

 

You may be the only woodpecker in your entire generation. But, probably not.

[MLD Woody]

Ugh..

 

 

 

On average, my generation thinks...

 

The majority of my generation thinks...

 

Most of my generation agrees that...

 

 

 

 

Better?

 

You also seem to think the majority of America is against gay marriage though... So clearly what you think most people believe are your projections of what you want them to believe.