re: #150 dragonath
I’m guessing the current cohort didn’t have the College Republicans telling them how great the Iraqi invasion was.
Remember when it comes to the “white” vote, the numbers are almost shockingly biased rightwards because of the Southern (read: evangelical) vote.
Re: how 18-29 yr old whites voted, does it ever occur to you that the prospect of inheriting a country which is 20+ trillion in debt might be an issue ?
I don’t see any prospect of meaningful reductions in spending. Congress is unlikely to accept higher taxes, and even if they did, the average level of federal govt tax receipts has stayed in a narrow range below 20% of GDP for about the last 60 years, regardless of tax rates.
You’re stuck now with a structural deficit of a trillion plus every year, and about 2/3rds of that is now funded by the Federal Reserve basically printing money, rather than by investors actually buying new debt.
A lot of younger people now realise they’re screwed.