GOP Faces Party ID Deficit Among All Age Groups

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Americans of every generation are currently more likely to identify as Democrats than Republicans, with the largest Democratic advantage among those aged 18 to 29 (+14) and the smallest among those aged 30 to 44 (+7).

The same reason we realize slavery, segregation, Child Labor, women not voting, and many other acts of oppression are WRONG is the same reason more people now are anything but Republican. Progress.

why does Gallup hate fetuses?

I'm in the Gen X group and I as well as most of my friends would consider ourselves as independents but will always vote Democrat. The reason why is that if there were a more progressive party to choose from (that would actually have a chance of winning) I'd definitively vote for that candidate. Democrats just happen to be the best option right now. If most of those Independents vote the same way, the Republicans are in worse shape than that poll would lead you to believe.

Whatever happened to Teddy Roosevelt's Bull-Moose Party? established in 1912.

"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." -TR

He left the republican party because it was getting to cozy with big business.

I think our poor showing vs other generations has to do with our coming of age during the Reagan years- when liberal was a dirty word.

World war 1 and boomers thought alike. WW1 protested war, formed the unions, the new deal and the GI loans. Anti-police state. Hated authority.

WW2 believed the corporations should run the country and had a good war experience so they supported Vietnam. Worshiped authority. Especially military and police.

Boomers hated corporations and protested war, protected the new deal and created Medicare and the great society programs. Hated authority especially police.

Gen x sided with WW2. Pro-corporation pro-war, pro-authority. (police state)

Generation M is siding with Boomers as the pattern continues...gen M hates police which is really bad news for the police state. When these two big generations get together on this it's OVER!

Things that helped the RW.

WW1 was marginalized by their children because they didn't have educations. My grandmother only went to the third grade (which my mother never let her forget) WW2 treated their parents like crap because the corporations kept telling them how great they were. (the greatest generation that saved the world) Which wasn't true but they believed it anyway. They thought they were so much better and smarter than their parents. This marginalized WW1 which the corps hated because they supported FDR!

WW2 was handed power early, right after the war, so WW1 was replaced faster than normal. WW2 was handed power early and is holding it late.

Boomers came and caused a ruckus. They weren't falling for the flattery. The corps needed another "greatest generation" someone who would believe they were great and everyone else was a loser. They got Gen x. That's where the bumper sticker "Die Yuppie Scum" comes in. That was the beginning of handing over power to the young gen xer's. The corps told them how great they were, how they worked so hard and everyone else was lazy, how they were so much smarter than everyone else etc.

This is why you will see at the tea parties, people in their thirties and early forties telling everyone they are lazy and unworthy. They still believe the shit the corps told them about themselves.

Of course nobody Else believed it. That why DIE YUPPIE SCUM was one of the most popular bumper stickers in history. In the 80's, when I lived in LA, every third car had it on. All types of people all ages considered the Yuppies nothing but butt sucking sellouts that were siding with the boss against their own kind. I guess you could call WW2 and Gen X the traitor generations.

Anyway the bad news for the corps is that if they can't corrupt gen M with false flattery then the trend is against them for 20 years.

Gen X is also a small generation stuck in between two large ones so even if the corps give them all the power it's not enough to help.

Sorry if this is offensive to Gen xer's. It's my experience that they don't even know this happened. Which isn't surprising since WW2 didn't know they got played either.

The moral of this story is, Never trust someone who flatters you!

PS Just to clarify. There is a blending of generations throught this process. You will see Boomers siding with corps and RW but they were going against the spirit of their generation. You will also see Genxer's that hate the police and authority. But in all three generations, who ever supported the corporations, war and the police state was rewarded. With money and power within their generation. Even if they were the minority. You have to look to the SPIRIT of the generation. That's what defines them.

There are without a doubt Boomers who were complete traitors and supported the enemy. This is why there are so many loser Boomers in power. There was such a rebellion that the natural leaders of the Boomer generation were made criminals and the "hall monitor" losers were given power. The corps didn't have any choice but to uplift the losers, they were the only ones who would talk to the adults. "Don't trust anyone over thirty". The kids took that seriously.

I hope that gets straightened out someday. It's hard for me as a boomer to get represented by the rat fink dorks I used to kick around. They are not the spirit. They are the imposters.