Kids These Days

Hughes points to an article that reports only 20% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 21% of 12- to 17-year-olds have a favorable view of Bush. They’re pissed off about the war (“Young people take it very personally. They feel like it’s their generation that’s been asked to sacrifice.”) and about social issues (“The very cultural issues the president wants to use to rally his party’s base are exactly the issues that are alienating younger voters. Across a broad swath of social issues, younger Americans see the administration as being out of line with what they believe.”)

Darn those kids and their not hatin’ the gays and shit.

I hope the Bush administration leaves this upcoming generation with an inextricable association between the GOP and the callous disregard for life, liberty, and equality that is their true legacy, all pretensions to principled conservatism notwithstanding. Even principled conservatism, which in its naked application facilitates a plutocratic social Darwinism that is a blight on a democracy which enthuses equality, is a gross failure when left unchecked. Conservatives now suggesting the need to re-embrace an abandoned strain of libertarianism are fools if they believe it will compensate for the ugly destination of their movement’s economic and cultural injustices, now revealed so evidently.

The kids are on to them. Let’s hope they send these avaricious, opportunistic, conformity-charmed bastards back to the wilderness for another 40 years where they fucking belong.

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