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The Obama Generation: 6 in 10 Want More Government

by College Fix Staff on November 27, 2012

A new Pew Research poll shows that in the wake of record levels of spending and more than $16 trillion in government debt, the Obama administration’s move to increase the roll of government in citizen’s lives is having its desired effect: It has created a mentality of dependency among the majority of young people.

Obamacare, record numbers on food stamps, unprecedented student loan subsidies–young people like the handouts and they want more.

A Pew Research study released today brought to light some scary figures about young people that conservatives must confront, especially since the youth vote was the deciding factor in key swing states. Here they are:
• 44 percent of young voters identify themselves with the Democratic Party, whereas only 26 percent identify with the Republican Party and 30 percent as Independent.
• 33 percent of young voters identify their political views as liberal, whereas only 26 percent identify their political views as conservative.
• 53 percent of young voters approve of President Obama’s healthcare law.
• Young voters under 30 represented 19 percent of the voter turnout population in 2012, compared to 18 percent in 2008–meaning it’s growing.
But the most troubling of the information released in this study is that nearly 6 in 10 of the voters under 30 support a more expansive role of government in solving problems. We can’t expect this mindset to change unless we start mirroring the left’s campaign efforts on college campuses.
Read more at Fox Nation.

Tagged as: decadence, government dependency, limited government, more government, national debt, Obama, ObamaCare, pew research poll, roll of government, socialism, youth, youth attitudes

  • Justin Z

    Actually, they’re college-educated, and smart, so they see right through the bullshit that is Austrian economics. Comforting thought.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586161708 Andrew Forcier

      But apparently didn’t learn enough to look across the ocean at all the chaos in Europe and get an idea of what the future of big government will bring them.

  • http://profiles.google.com/rigoletto339 Michael Zorn

    It’s a Tipping Point. When more than 50% of the electorate find out they can vote themselves Free Stuff, the country goes into a nose-dive.

    “We can’t expect this mindset to change unless we start mirroring the left’s campaign efforts on college campuses.”

    Sorry – way too late. The Left, ever since about the time of John Dewey, has been working day and night to “educate” generations of students – from kindergarten on up – into believing that Marx and Lenin weren’t all that bad, that socialism is really the best way to run a country,

    It’s the reason Obama & Co have been pushing for “everyone needs to go to college”: professors can influence their thought processes; college administration (with the help of RAs) can impose “codes” of one kind or another to keep students in line, keep them from thinking “ungood” thoughts; turn them into glassy-eyed supporters of the Great Father, the All-providing State.

    It’s too late. Say bye-bye to the America that our fathers fought so hard to give us.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003208044965 John Hayes

    First of all, none of this is news.

    Second, things WILL change. As the government takes an increasing share of their pay, those percentages will rapidly be turned upside down.

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  • Juan Ortiz

    Well if the private sector practiced good social corporate responsibility
    maybe then liberal policies might not be so appealing to the more vulnerable
    socioeconomic classes.