My idiot freeper cousin got me thinking today [View All]

[jeter]

I have a cousin in town from MA. He is a total republican. Always has been, always will be. He can not be changed. But he got me thinking as he spoke, and spoke, and spoke.

He loves everything Bush does and hates everything Clinton did.

His whole family are republicans. Even more so than him. But he was telling me how some people in the family were coming to disagree with Bush and his foreign policies. His older brother voted for Bush. But he is now kind of down on Bush saying, "we (the US) shouldn't be the world's policemen."

I've given up all hope in trying to sway these people. But if there are cracks among these hard-core supporters. Than this must mean that undecideds and independants must be turning from Bush as well.

A second thing I thought of. I asked him when and why he supported the republicans. He told me that at first he supported the Democrats - late 70s/ early 80s. But he thought the Democrats were whimpy and blah blah blah and he started supporting Reagan. He has an ethnic background (as do I) and I realized that this is the heart of the old fabled Reagan-Democrat.

A few days ago I was talking to several old High School friends. They have similar backgrounds. And what struck me was that this same group were all liberal. Same background, different generation (i'm about 15 years younger than my cousin). It occurs to me that a new generation of people were growing up more liberal, whereas those people older than us were conservative (having given up on the Great Society, etc).

Just a weird observation. But I think there is something there.

I believe a new Democratic majority is emerging after all.