Demographics and time are not on the side of the Right

[OGIS]

As this article strongly implies, liberals just need to be patient. Demographics seem to be on their side.

A wider partisan and ideological gap between younger, older generations

The generation gap in American politics is dividing two younger age groups, Millennials and Generation X, from the two older groups, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation.

In 2016, as in recent years, Millennials and Gen Xers were the most Democratic generations. And both groups had relatively large – and growing – shares of liberal Democrats: 27% of Millennials and 21% of Gen Xers identified as liberal Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.



http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...r-generations/

[MisterVeritis]

Then the nation will end with a whimper.

[Peter1469]

I think the younger generations will turn out libertarian. They are already fed up with the establishment/both parties.

[Chris]

Right and left are relative. One pushes change, the other reacts to and resists it. All things change. Not progressively, but randomly. During the Revolution it was the radicals who wanted a decentralized government, the conservatives a centralized one. Now the opposite is true.

[Common]

Ive heard its the end of the right and the left more than a couple of times in my lifetime. To me there is only one constant and that is that the Pendulum always swings right to left.

America rejects the far right and the far left every time they are in office.

Lets remember the democrats lost more elections under obama than any other time.

[Tahuyaman]

I think the younger generations will turn out libertarian. They are already fed up with the establishment/both parties.

In spite of the Pew Research Center's results, reality supports your view.

Pew Research clearly leans one way and they work to support that lean.

[Scrounger]

While the pendulum swings back and forth from right to left and back again, it swings farther to the left with each successive generation. In my lifetime, the pendulum has swung so far left that when it swings to the right it is still left of center.

The liberals are happy to think that the right and conservatives are dying off in droves. Those whites over 45 tend to be fat, on drugs, alcoholics, smokers, and drunks. A lot of them are not married, have no strong family ties, are basically under-educated and live off of junk food. Their health is bad and they tend not to live as long as the generation that preceded them.

It's a sad commentary, but I fear they are not far from the mark.

[Tahuyaman]

While the pendulum swings back and forth from right to left and back again, it swings farther to the left with each successive generation. In my lifetime, the pendulum has swung so far left that when it swings to the right it is still left of center.

The liberals are happy to think that the right and conservatives are dying off in droves. Those whites over 45 tend to be fat, on drugs, alcoholics, smokers, and drunks. A lot of them are not married, have no strong family ties, are basically under-educated and live off of junk food. Their health is bad and they tend not to live as long as the generation that preceded them.

It's a sad commentary, but I fear they are not far from the mark.

The political parties have shifted to the left over the last few generations, but more and more people are not following along with the parties.

[OGIS]

Right and left are relative. One pushes change, the other reacts to and resists it. All things change. Not progressively, but randomly. During the Revolution it was the radicals who wanted a decentralized government, the conservatives a centralized one. Now the opposite is true.

Except, of course, for the exceptions. Most conservatives I've met seem to embrace small non-intrusive government on a very selective basis.

[MisterVeritis]

Except, of course, for the exceptions. Most conservatives I've met seem to embrace small non-intrusive government on a very selective basis.

Some, but not all, are Constitutional Conservatives. We want the government to do only those things allowed in the Constitution. That does not mean small government although government would be smaller if it did not do so many unconstitutional things.