"A New Report Shows How Young Liberals Own the Future of American Politics"

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A New Report Shows How Young Liberals Own the Future of American Politics

By Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/new-report-shows-young-liberals-own-the-future.html

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What is the source of this cleavage? Is it a mere reaction to the disaster of the Bush years, or rising social liberalism? Actually, younger voters are simply much more liberal than their elders across the board.


One way to measure the difference is to ask a generic question about the size of government. Now, there’s a venerable principle that states that Americans are ideological conservatives and operational liberals. They oppose bigger government in the abstract, and embrace the label “conservative” over “liberal,” but they tend to support specific government programs at a far higher level than these conceptual terms would imply. (Political scientist John Sides had a post yesterday updating this hardy reality.) Traditionally, self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals by a good 2-to-1, even when the partisan balance is close to even.


Millennials are not only far more likely to embrace the liberal label in comparison to voters in other generations, they’re more likely to call themselves liberal than conservative:



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1. "One way to measure the difference is to ask a generic question about the size of government."

That isn't a generic question pertaining to anything. In fact it's totally ambiguous no-nothing troll-bait.

That question is so totally no-nothing that it doesn't even define the notion of "size", or indicate beyond the most glamorific of hand-waving pretence, what is to be measured, to say nothing of how the various differentiae are specified and how they are measured.

It's a vapid meme used by a grotesque MSM to pretend to be relevant, to pretend to be presenting some kind of "analysis", when in fact all it is doing is, to the highest bidder, projecting a very raw spin.

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2. Love the last line of that article:

"I, for one, welcome our new liberal overlords."

Me too, Jonathan!