[lbo-talk] bad for the party?

[Steven L. Robinson]

This sounds sooo familiar. We have been hearing stuff like this for 28 years, ever since Reagan swept into power. (recall the Ferguson/Rogers book called "Right Turn," claiming voters were to the right of the politics of Reagan), but those in power have steadily moved to the right.

The question is what, if anything, comes of this sociodemographic trend? Without mobilization or, before that, organization it is hard to see what can come of it. SR

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> 

 
> But the sociodemographic trend over the past 50 years is clear: compared 
> to their parents' generation, each new generation in the U. S. is more 
> likely to have the nonconservative attitudes Doug mentions above. Sure, 
> in a nation of 300 mill, there are plenty of young reactionaries, but as 
> a proportion of the U. S. population, there are dwindling with each 
> generation. > Miles 
> ___________________________________ 
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk