VERY disturbing
Back to the Economist which is only for print edition or subscribers.
It was entitled Right Young Things: A Youthquake that is helping George Bush.
"The College Republicans have tripled their membership in the last three years, increasing their chapters from 409 to 1,1148 and recruiting 22,000 new members alone in 2002"
The article cites three trends:
1) "a healthy desire to tweak the noses of people in authority" i.e. America's Academic Community.
2) "surge in patriotism that widened the gap btw students and Vietnam era professors."
3) ".. American conservatives devote a a lot of energy to recruiting the young."
So where does that leave the left? Baby Boomers are getting conservative as they age. Their children are now conservative due to the alleged reasons above. The problem with the left today is that we are not organized like the right. Not even close. That gap will continue to grow unless there is a grass roots organization created by the dems.
Phat chance? I dunno....
Home Safe
Yes I got home safely. 9.5 hrs of travel of which 3 were spent on the ground in Las Vegas. If I never see the inside of the LV airport again I'll be a happy camper. The nice thing about flying with Alex was that one or the other of us could keep an eye on the bags while the other went to the bathroom or went shopping or whatever. Not as easy when you are flying solo.
I did get my Oakland Athletics collection up to speed at the Oakland airport before I took off. Bought a cool cap, two bumper stickers and a couple of fridge magnets. Geoff came over to my gate to say goodbye after we were separated in Security processing at the Oakland Airport so that was very cool.
OBCD now: "Ultra Lounge" an outrageous collection of jazz covers that have been chilled out and lounged. Brother Greg lent it to me to listen to for a while.
QOTD: Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
Back to the Economist which is only for print edition or subscribers.
It was entitled Right Young Things: A Youthquake that is helping George Bush.
"The College Republicans have tripled their membership in the last three years, increasing their chapters from 409 to 1,1148 and recruiting 22,000 new members alone in 2002"
The article cites three trends:
1) "a healthy desire to tweak the noses of people in authority" i.e. America's Academic Community.
2) "surge in patriotism that widened the gap btw students and Vietnam era professors."
3) ".. American conservatives devote a a lot of energy to recruiting the young."
So where does that leave the left? Baby Boomers are getting conservative as they age. Their children are now conservative due to the alleged reasons above. The problem with the left today is that we are not organized like the right. Not even close. That gap will continue to grow unless there is a grass roots organization created by the dems.
Phat chance? I dunno....
Home Safe
Yes I got home safely. 9.5 hrs of travel of which 3 were spent on the ground in Las Vegas. If I never see the inside of the LV airport again I'll be a happy camper. The nice thing about flying with Alex was that one or the other of us could keep an eye on the bags while the other went to the bathroom or went shopping or whatever. Not as easy when you are flying solo.
I did get my Oakland Athletics collection up to speed at the Oakland airport before I took off. Bought a cool cap, two bumper stickers and a couple of fridge magnets. Geoff came over to my gate to say goodbye after we were separated in Security processing at the Oakland Airport so that was very cool.
OBCD now: "Ultra Lounge" an outrageous collection of jazz covers that have been chilled out and lounged. Brother Greg lent it to me to listen to for a while.
QOTD: Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
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