An Opinion Journal Article by Arthur C. Brooks explains how the cultural attitudes, especially on life issues, prevailing in each of the two major political parties will profoundly influence the direction of American politics.
Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections. Over the past 30 years this gap has not been below 20%--explaining, to a large extent, the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.
Some of the elites react to this situation with a certain reality-challenged disdain.
As one liberal columnist in a major paper graphically put it, "Maybe the scales are tipping to the neoconservative, homogenous right in our culture simply because they tend not to give much of a damn for the ramifications of wanton breeding and environmental destruction and pious sanctimony, whereas those on the left actually seem to give a whit for the health of the planet and the dire effects of overpopulation." It would appear liberals have been quite successful controlling overpopulation--in the Democratic Party.
Don't those raising the old bogeyman of global 'overpopulation' realize that there are plenty of resources available for a growing human population?
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