Is Trump going to Prison?

[TaraJo]

@TaraJo

So, yeah, republicans make us so terrified of socialism that their sheep will gladly donate all their money to a snake oil salesman because he's the only thing that they think can fight it.

This strategy isn’t what it once was. Voters today are less afraid of the socialism boogeyman than they once were. This is especially true among minorities and younger voters, two demographics that Trump desperately needs.

Boru

Very true.  There's a reason for it, though:  Republicans are pandering to baby boomers VERY HARD.

I'm Gen X and I'm one of the younger Gen Xers being born in 1978.  I was 11 when the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war basically ended.  I have some memories of the world during the cold war, back when "communist" was one of the worst insults there was and when we were constantly under threat of potential nuclear war.  But how much of that are you going to pick up on when it all happened before you were even 11 years old?  Think about people older, people who reached adulthood and fought wars in Korea or Vietnam, against communism.  Think about those people who had regular drills in school on how to react in case of nuclear war.  They were trained for a very long time to see communists as the enemy and that kind of training tapered off in the 90's when communism wasn't a big threat from the USSR.  

And the next generation?  They've seen more and more greed from completely unrestrained capitalism.  They're the generation that watched their income, their future, their education, their healthcare..... those things were all stolen or corrupted by corporate greed.  Maybe, if they had lived under the same kind of existential fear that boomers and gen x experienced in the cold war, millenials would be turning more conservative now, but it's not happening.

Doesn't help that a lot of the social changes the younger generation support are hated by republicans.  I mean, my kids didn't even bat an eye at the idea of me being trans, but 20 years ago, I wouldn't have known what to say if one of my parents had come out as trans.  LGBT rights are basically unquestioned.  Republicans overturned Roe v Wade and the kids don't like that.  And they really don't like the prospect of having to spend decades in debt to go to college.  They aren't learning to fear potential nuclear war, they're fearing routine school shootings.  Republicans, besides simping for corporate greed, are against so many of the social issues that younger people support.

So far, that's paid off for the GOP because younger people don't vote as much.  Statistically, that's how it goes: the younger you are, the less likely you are to vote.  And usually, as a generation gets older, they start getting more conservative.  Thing is, the Millenials should be getting more conservative now.... and they aren't.  That's what's going to hurt the GOP right there.