Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

As older generations of Americans slowly die off, it appears inevitable that the values that are dominant among younger generations of Americans are going to become the values of the country as a whole. Essentially, “American values” are going to mean something completely different from what they meant to previous generations, and that should absolutely terrify all of us.

Generation Gap: New Survey Shows Completely Different Values Between Generations
Michael Snyder/Economic Collapse Blog ~ August 28, 2019
America's values are shifting at a pace that is unlike anything that we have ever seen before. During the 2020 election season, we are going to hear a lot about "the generation gap", and the numbers clearly tell us that this gap is very, very real.

And as older generations of Americans slowly die off, it appears inevitable that the values that are dominant among younger generations of Americans are going to become the values of the country as a whole.

Essentially, "American values" are going to mean something completely different from what they meant to previous generations, and that should absolutely terrify all of us.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey that was just released has some very revealing results. Among other things, those conducting the survey asked respondents about the importance of "patriotism" and "religion", and the differences between the age groups were quite striking...

Among people 55 and older, for example, nearly 80% said patriotism was very important, compared with 42% of those ages 18-38--the millennial generation and older members of Gen-Z. Two-thirds of the older group cited religion as very important, compared with fewer than one-third of the younger group.

"There's an emerging America where issues like children, religion and patriotism are far less important. And in America, it's the emerging generation that calls the shots about where the country is headed," said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt.

In addition, well over 50 percent of Baby Boomers rated "having children" as "very important", while just over 30 percent of Americans under the age of 39 did.

God, family and country are clearly not as important to Americans as they used to be, and that has enormous implications for our future. When all of the age groups in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey are combined and the results are compared to 21 years ago, we can clearly see the seismic shift that has taken place...

Some 61% in the new survey cited patriotism as very important to them, down 9 percentage points from 1998, while 50% cited religion, down 12 points. Some 43% placed a high value on having children, down 16 points from 1998.

America also used to be a "capitalist nation" that firmly rejected socialism, but now that is rapidly changing too.

According to ABC News, a recent Gallup survey discovered that 58 percent of U.S. adults under the age of 35 believe that some version of socialism "would be good for the country"....

While more than half of Americans rejected socialism in a recent Gallup poll, 43% surveyed said some version of it would be good for the country. That sentiment was held by 58% of respondents ages 18 to 34, compared with just 36% of those 55 and older.

Whether you and I like it or not, this is the direction that our nation is heading. Given enough time, those young people would eventually be running everything.

America is clearly shifting to the left, and another survey made this even clearer. When asked to choose the best president of their lifetimes, a whopping 62 percent of American Millennials picked Barack Obama as their first or second choice...

Millennials (born 1981 to 1996) were the most likely to choose Obama, with 62 percent naming him as their first or second choice. Reagan was the top pick for Generation X (1965 to 1980), baby boomers (1946 to 1964) and the silent generation (1928 to 1945).

Unsurprisingly, party identification was very closely tied to a person's answer. Obama was the first or second pick of 71 percent of Democrats but only 13 percent of Republicans.

Reagan was the clear favorite among Republicans with 57 percent (12 percent among Democrats). Trump was the second pick for Republicans at 40 percent. Only 3 percent of Democrats named Trump.

Of course, Barack Obama remains wildly popular among young people, and so if Michelle Obama decided to run in 2020 she would have an overwhelming amount of support among younger voters.

This "generation gap" is also huge when it comes to social issues.

Today, young adults are overwhelmingly in favor of gay marriage, and at this point we have almost even reached a "tipping point" with evangelical Christians. For example, just check out the results from this very
shocking survey...

Overall, white evangelical Protestants continue to stand out for their opposition to same-sex-marriage: 35% of white evangelical Protestants favor same-sex marriage, compared with a 59% majority who are opposed.

But younger white evangelicals have grown more supportive: 47% of white evangelical Millennials and Gen Xers - age cohorts born after 1964 - favor same-sex marriage, up from 29% in March 2016. Views among older white evangelicals (Boomers and Silents) have shown virtually no change over the past year (26% now, 25% then).

If we are still having a "culture war", one side is definitely winning by a landslide.

The primary reason why all of this is happening is quite obvious. For most of our history, the United States has been an overwhelmingly Christian nation. But in recent decades that has begun to change dramatically, and the shift has been most pronounced among young adults.

According to a survey that was conducted a while back by PRRI, 39 percent of all young adults in America are now "religiously unaffiliated", but all the way back in 1986 that number was sitting at just 10 percent...

Today, nearly four in ten (39%) young adults (ages 18-29) are religiously unaffiliated--three times the unaffiliated rate (13%) among seniors (ages 65 and older).

While previous generations were also more likely to be religiously unaffiliated in their twenties, young adults today are nearly four times as likely as young adults a generation ago to identify as religiously unaffiliated. In 1986, for example, only 10% of young adults claimed no religious affiliation.

And of course, many of our "religious institutions" have also shifted dramatically to the left during that same time frame.

Ultimately, it is quite easy to see what we need to do. If we ever want to turn America back in the right direction, we need to return to the values and principles that this nation was founded upon.

But that is much easier said than done.

The sad truth is that America's young adults have firmly rejected the values that we once held so dear. They want to take this country down an entirely different path, and given enough time they will soon have the numbers to firmly be in control.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

That's What We Keep Being Told
Yet The Right Keeps Winning Elections Against All Odds
Remember, Half The Boomers Never Vote Republican Either
Somewhere Along The Line
Younger People And Immigrants Must Be Changing Their Minds

I'm Guessing
About The Time They Have Jobs, Families, Mortgages, And Taxes

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

They'll get more conservative as they get older...except for the academians who've been stuck on stupid for 40 years and isolated in their enclaves.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

It A Damned Shame
Kids Have To Buck Their Training All By Themselves

Big Kahuna

All the Boomers need to do is cut the Millennials off of their coattails, will their assets to conservative causes and the Millennials will cry like the big brat babies they are. They will then come around to support capitalism, religion, family values and morality after they live in and see the pits of hell.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

It has ever been thus: Old chicken littles screaming the sky is falling because the young chicks are developing their own ideas.

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates

You did the same to your parents....freak them out with your bad manners and new-fangled ideas and that g-damned rock-n-roll. It's the cycle of life. Take a chill pill or smoke some pot and relax. The kids are alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afam2nIae4o

maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Kids are not bucking their training all by themselves.
A typical school day in America is right at 7 hours. That's seven hours per day for 5 days per week, or 35 hours per week that children are under the influence of adults OTHER than their parents...their teachers.
I don't know why it is that the school system seems to be pro liberal these days but it sure looks like it. So, these teachers throw out ideas that conflict with what their parents tell them, and of course, kids latch onto anything that goes against what their parents hold to be true. It makes them feel wise to hold other ideas than what their "bosses" do.
The parents I'm talking about here are conservative. Eventually, their children will mature and begin to see that their parents were not so dumb after all, and they will return to their upbringing.
It's a whole other story if the parents are liberal. Liberal children are that way because it's what THEY have been taught. If conservative kids disagree, they make fun of them ( which is a curse for kids), so the conservative kids just clam up.
Anyway, my point is that kids get a lot of help bucking their training. And THAT...is a d@mned shame.

Smedley_buzkill

Let's just hope they get their thumbs unstuck before it's too late. I had bad manners and new fangled ideas and rock and roll. I also had Civics, understood the law and the Constitution, was informed about what the government was doing and did a hitch in the military. Today's kids seem clueless. I spoke recently with a high school graduate who had no idea who we fought in the Revolutionary War, No clue as to who our State and US Congressmen and Senators were. Her knowledge of US history and government was non-existent, yet she will be voting. Dios nos ayude.

greeneyes2

Older folks vs younger generation have ALWAYS had different views & values. Times change. A great book about WWI, "The Fall of Giants," explains this great shift at the beginning of the 20th C.
Why worry though? I'm an older generation. My youth was Woodstock era.
Soon I'll be resting in the earth. When dead, what do I care what the next generation values?
So, older folks, don't fret. You'll never know what will happen when you're dead. Why care?
Enjoy your own views, politics, religion TODAY. This is still YOUR world.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

^ ^ ^ That Training Is What I Meant....

Smedley_buzkill

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

The new trend will represent my grandchildren more than my children.
I for one are ready to accept the world my grandchildren seek.

I can only show what I & my children have done a good job of raising the next generation.