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DemocraticWing

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1. I don't think social conservatism will ever actually die, unfortunately.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2014, 05:42 AM

May 2014

There will always be some issue to galvanize the type of people who are socially conservative. A lot of younger people won't necessarily go backwards on issues as they get older, but they'll certainly get stuck in their ways. So in 50 years when we're still pointing out the injustices (racism, homophobia, the usual) that remain, there will be a decent proportion who claim such problems don't exist while subtly promoting ridiculous thoughts on the state of the oppressed.

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RIP Social Conservatism: Why It's Dying - and the Coming Realignment [View all] eridani May 2014 OP

I don't think social conservatism will ever actually die, unfortunately. DemocraticWing May 2014 #1

ONE up side could be that the neoliberals will go back to the Republican Party, where they BELONG Exposethefrauds May 2014 #2

...you're celebrating the prospect of more people voting Republican? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #5

There really aren't that many neoliberals... they just have outsize influence because of their $$$ reformist2 May 2014 #3

Hopefully religion's influence will wither... Arugula Latte May 2014 #4

I find this to be a highly suspect analysis. Spider Jerusalem May 2014 #6

Millenials are dramatically less religious than previous generations eridani May 2014 #7