Beware GOP: Millennials Don’t Like What We’re Hearing

http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ke-what-were-hearing-110769.html#.VBerm2K9KSM

The Republican establishment seems unaware of the power of young libertarians.

The past six years have seen explosive growth of libertarian groups on campuses and in communities across the country. Students for Liberty has added more than 100,000 members and Young Americans for Liberty has formed more than 500 chapters. Multiple polls from Pew and Harvard University attest to young voters’ acceptance of non-interventionism, drug decriminalization, skepticism of government and other libertarian ideas. And surveys from Quinnipiac, Public Policy Polling and Reason-Rupe have found Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul receiving the most support of any Republican candidate among millennials.

These campus groups and a host of different state and national groups have helped educate and organize this movement, whether via top-down organizations that have built armies of volunteers to battle the overreach of the national security state, or bottom-up organic groups that have enabled thousands of young moms to stand against Common Core in their communities.

At the turn of the 21st century, the idea of an organized and activated libertarian movement would have struck most people as absurd, even for those in the halls of sympathetic think tanks. But it has arrived thanks to a number of factors, most of which, again, have to do with the decisions and mistakes of the Republican Party.

 

Yes. The few young people who in previous generations would have been republicans are now "independents" or "libertarians". They'll still vote for republicans, and they still won't have much of an impact on politics as a result, and they still won't ever get laid, but at least nowadays they don't have to admit they are republicans. Progress!

barfo

 

500 chapters. Go ahead and sneeze at it.

Our agenda is already happening on many fronts.

It's not a sprint, but a marathon. We are doing better than I hoped by this point in time.

 

Ha----choo!

I'm pretty sure you aren't a millennial, Denny. Or are you admitting those students are just pawns of old guys?

You've beheaded a few journalists, big deal. Now we bomb you back to the stone age.

barfo

 

Building the Great Pyramid of Giza today would cost about $5 billion USD.

 

I'm a libertarian. So are they. I'm satisfied with that.

It's hard to fathom how republicans and democrats don't satisfy the public, yet they keep electing republicans and democrats as if the new guys are any better than the old.

How do you feel about the NSA spying on everyone? That's your vision of government. You wanted it, you got it.

You argue that the constitution is outdated and can largely be ignored. Your kind is running things and they're ignoring it. I guess it's still tolerable for you for some reason .

So you want to start bombing our college campuses now? Bomb them into the Stone Age!

 

Minstrel,

I'd be quite in favor of cutting the military by 2/3 or more. Obama didn't do that. Bush didn't do that. The next democrat or republican won't do that.

Why do you want such a big military?

 

A big chunk of that military budget goes to education and medical care for enlistees. Why do you want millions of people to bed uneducated, poor, and unhealthy?

 

Why? Because I don't want us dropping bombs on people outside (or inside!) the country on a 24/7/365 basis.

 

Righhhhhht.

Why do you want a huge military?

 

Yes you can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

 

All of Romney's money couldn't defeat the much poorer Obama. I don't think the money is the issue

 

If republicans and democrats get to limit the green party's ability to get their word out, how is it better? You know, the two parties would be able to squash 1st amendment political speech.