Ron Paul VS RNC

[mistermack]

That's an interesting perspective; thanks. Of course it still suggests that the 18-24 year olds will be able to deal with security issues in a more practical way, without the disproportionate emotional reactions that mistermack suggests, if for different reasons.

I don't get the significance of 18-24 year olds. Maybe I missed an earlier post.
I would have thought that it's the reactions of voters, of all ages, that count.
The 18-24 year olds become thirty and forty year-olds, and their attitudes change as they get older.

I can't see attitudes to security changing much over time. Individually, there will be plenty of people who think about it logically, but an electorate as a whole is like a supertanker, very hard to knock off course.

[Warren Dew]

That's an interesting perspective; thanks. Of course it still suggests that the 18-24 year olds will be able to deal with security issues in a more practical way, without the disproportionate emotional reactions that mistermack suggests, if for different reasons.

I don't get the significance of 18-24 year olds. Maybe I missed an earlier post.
I would have thought that it's the reactions of voters, of all ages, that count.
The 18-24 year olds become thirty and forty year-olds, and their attitudes change as they get older.

The 18-24 year olds become thirty and forty year olds, and the sixty and seventy year olds die off.

If their attitudes changed as a function of age, that wouldn't matter; however, I don't think that's how it works. I don't think the 18-24 year olds that support gay marriage will switch to thinking gay marriage is bad when they turn 50, and I don't think today's 70 year olds that oppose gay marriage thought gay marriage was a good idea back when they were 20.

If the 18-24 year olds come to see the benefits of libertarianism today, they'll keep that for their lifetimes.