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Gen Y to GOP: Lick Our Balls

By Marty Beckerman / January 10, 2008

A Pew study reveals that Generation Y is more liberal than any other age group — including Gen X when they were our age. Nearly 60 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds choose Democratic candidates over Republicans. This reverses a trend from the '80s and '90s of younger voters being more likely to vote conservative.

Why is this? Aside from the fact that a Republican commander-in-chief has sent more than 3,000 of us to our bloody deaths, Gen Y is far more open to gay marriage than older generations. Our friends don't feel the need to hide their sexuality, unlike many right-wing politicians and religious leaders. As the GOP continues to bash our buddies as harbingers of the apocalypse, their numbers will continue to shrink faster than my anatomy in a room full of naked guys (bronzed… jacked… dripping with sweat…), because I am so totally 93 percent not gay. (But seriously, who wouldn't go for Shatner? Especially today?)

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  • By kid blast 1/11/08 at 1:06 p.m. UTC

    …where one's attitude toward homosexuality defines one as liberal or conservative. If Gen Y's spokes-folks want to champion their thorough indoctrination into, and witless adherence to, identity politics, more power to them. If the stats above are credible, Gen X can at least take pride in resistance to boomer mythology. They may feel a twinge of regret for leaving their younger brothers and sisters defenseless against the grayhairs' onslaught of narcissistic piety.  But, don't feel too bad ye raising infants and toddlers- fabulous twenty-somethings will also one day be too tired to club. They'll start paying bills, wondering why they misspent their youth, and voting conservative. It's the American Way.

  • By Anonymous 1/11/08 at 12:25 p.m. UTC

    I was born in 1964, so in terms of generations,  I stand with Obama in that too old young for the boomers generation and too old for generation x.

    I wonder if the trend in the 1980s and 1990s was due to Reagan's influence. even if you were too young to vote, you might be influenced towards the republican party given their victory over the Soviet Union. In contrast, genearation Y has grown up in a post Reagan world.

  • By Barbara Reader 1/11/08 at 12:05 p.m. UTC

    I guess, from the reply comments, that this website attracts a lot of
    hate-filled people.  If  somebody believed what he said was
    untrue, they'd say that.  But the responses say more about the
    responders than the writer.

  • By kid blast 1/10/08 at 10:17 p.m. UTC

    …was a little much, yes. But, w/ all appropriate apologies, for Christ's sake. This guy is a joke. Will votes out of the cabal follow? How about funky cabal mix tapes? Weiss will be missed.

  • By Adam TheBore 1/10/08 at 9:43 p.m. UTC

    Your column just merely shows how your generation is not suitable for anything except cannon fodder. Stop wasting your time here, your time would be better spent rooting out al Qaeda in Diyala Province

  • By Anonymous 1/10/08 at 6:16 p.m. UTC

    Why are you begging republicans for gay sex?

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