Taibbi: Are Republicans at War With Their Own Future?

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/29795-focus-are-republicans-at-war-with-their-own-future

Depending upon whose polls you believe, support for same-sex marriage among Republicans in the millennial age category hovers somewhere around 60 percent, lagging just 15-20 percent behind their counterparts in the Democratic Party. That makes for a significant schism within the Republican Party on the same-sex marriage issue, the key predictor clearly being age. Here's how it breaks down, according to Pew:

Ages 70 and older: Only 20 percent favor same-sex marriage.

Ages 56 to 69: 30 percent in favor

Ages 35-50: 42 percent in favor

Under 35: 58 percent in favor

The data on this issue is hilarious and tracks with the varying support levels among Republicans on a lot of other social issues, like marijuana legalization (support levels there are around 60 percent among young Republicans).

Reading between the lines, the children of older Republicans no longer agree with their nutbar parents on these key social issues. These young Republicans will probably change the party platform to reflect that split sometime in the near future.

In other words, what Jindal describes as "left-wing radicalism" is actually the future consensus belief system of his own Republican party. As Ambrose Bierce once put it, radicalism is just "the conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today."

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1. Bobby Jindal has chosen to tie himself to that anchor and go down with that ship!