Kids aren't so into the republicans

I has also been said that a Conservative is a follower of a dead Liberal. I'm kind of fond of Thomas Jefferson myself....

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Of course I'm trying to raise liberals but I'm not vehement about it. They'll make up their own minds eventually.

With our family demographics, I'd be amazed to turn out anything else.

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I'm so tired of this Liberal/Conservative, Democrat/Republican CRAP. Why can't we just raise our kids to be Americans? To look at issues from both sides, incorporate a lot of logic, a little bit of emotion where appropriate and consider what is best for the country, and IGNORE the elephant and the donkey?

This kind of thinking is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. This nonsense of "I will support this president (BOTH Clinton and Bush) because he's my party's guy, regardless of how badly he has shamed the country and betrayed everything he supposedly stood for" has nearly brought our country to her knees.

If we don't wake up, we're going to be very sorry. Especially if, one day in the future, we can look back and say, "gee, I could have prevented this by opening my eyes and not toeing the party line".

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Oh, and just to be clear... go check out the "nonpartisan" Democracy Corps (http://www.democracycorps.com) - every one of the five founding members is a lifelong Liberal Democrat. Hard to be nonpartisan when there's no representation from any other point of view...

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Yeah...uh huh.

I guess it depends on who is doing the asking.

Of course, the liberal agenda of the schools may have a little something to do with it as well.

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From what I can tell, this survey involved "young people" ages 18-29, not "kids".

My poor daughter (age 6) is confused because I'm a Libertarian. So I have to explain a lot of things to her in more detail. Not just "Liberals/Democrats" or "Conservatives/Republicans" are bad. I don't like either of the 2 major parties and think they both get a lot of things wrong. Right now, my daughter says she is a Libertarian, too, but of course I want her to make up her own mind about things. Unfortunately, my candidates never win, and that is hard for a kid to understand. :)

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Well in Virginia we have virginia21 - www.virginia21.org - which is an advocay group for yougn voter (18-30). It's not as trite as ROCK the VOTE, it has (much liek AARP) been able to mobilize thousands of young voters to make positive changes in most higher education, but now also on absentee ballot voting. The VA21 folks are the first in the nation and in VA to do what they do, and they do it well, and are respected in the Virginia State Capital of RIchmond (where I am affiliated) I see them doing there lobbying and activists duties and hope that my kids get as in to as they are one day.

While I imagine that if you are into higher education funding then you have to be a little to the left, and most students are... but our state is also a republican run house and senate,.... so the fact they these kids are getting anything done for their age group is quite amazing.

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Whatever happened to good old family values? You know... morals, fighting for what is right, protecting our kids and their youth.

I guess we live in a liberal society where child sex offenders run free, illegals can get away with any crimes they want, kids are told to go have sex and do drugs as much as they'd like, homosexuals are called "normal" and "natural", people want to live in "peace and harmony" with the very terrorists that want to kill us...

Don't people see that this is the liberal agenda? I just don't understand sometimes...

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Yes, it's terrible that we live in a society where people are innocent until proven guilty, where people living in an impoverished country seek to make a better life for themselves and their families and where people believe that educating children about the dangers of unsafe sexual behavior and drug use actually prevents said behavior.

Damn liberals!

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"Damn liberals!"

"Yes, it's terrible that we live in a society where people are innocent until proven guilty"

Innocent until proven guilty??? I can name lots of people for whom that didn't work...there's a couple of Border Patrol agents sitting in jail right now for something they didn't do, O.J. Simpson walks free, Jack McClellan, profiled on another PD post, is out there lusting after your little girls RIGHT NOW, and illegals can live right next door to you and use services that you pay for. And thanks to the ACLU, towns can do NOTHING about it.

"where people living in an impoverished country seek to make a better life for themselves and their families"

How? By instituting socialized healthcare and demanding subsidized housing, food, and education? By coming here and demanding rights that they shouldn't have because they refuse to become a citizen?

"where people believe that educating children about the dangers of unsafe sexual behavior and drug use actually prevents said behavior"

There's a difference between *educating* children about those dangers and *encouraging* the act. I have nothing against educating kids, at appropriate ages, about drug use and sex. What I (and others) have a problem with is dumping tons of money into a program that doesn't work (D.A.R.E.) and handing out condoms to kids starting in 6th grade, and sometimes earlier.

Liberalism isn't as idealistic as you'd like us to believe. And frankly, Conservatism isn't as pius as it would like to believe. That's why I stand by my original response and continue to say... DROP THE LABELS, people! Start using your BRAINS instead of being a toady for a party. THINK about the issues instead of FEELING them. Once we start using the brains that God gave us, maybe we can stop the stupid fighting and turn ourselves around. Because if we don't, that wall is gonna hurt when we hit it. And this country that we all profess to love so much is going to be gone.

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