Where is the American youth?

The November elections are coming faster and faster and it is our responsibility as caretakers of the Republic is to cast our votes. Those votes need to be made responsibly to assure that we put into office the right individuals that will honor and defend the Constitution as well as keep the best interests of America in the front. With the formation of the TEA party movement and such organizations like the 9.12 groups, Freedomworks, etc. we have seen a greater conservative voter turn out so far. We must keep this up. However the answer isn’t the Conservative voter turn out…the answer is education and promotion.

Here are some disturbing facts. In 1972 over 60% of those in America over the age of 65 were exercising their right to vote. 50% of Americans und the age of 25 were voting. In 2000 almost 70% of those over 65 were voting while barely above 30% of those under 25 were making it to the ballot box. The numbers have increased slightly over the past 9 years for those under 25, but the poll shows a disturbing picture. From 1972 we have seen a steady decline in younger Americans not exercising their right to vote. As far as keeping up to date with politics and political knowledge in 1964 almost 70% of Americans between 18 and 29 years of age had a good understanding when quizzed about current political issues and individuals. In the year 2000 when the same type of test was done again only 30% of Americans 18-29 had a basic understanding. Here is one more set of disturbing facts…in 1966 about 60% of college students said that they try to keep up-to-date on current political affairs and in 2003 only 34% showed an interest in keeping in tune with the political issues of America. This my friends pose a significant danger in the future of the Republic. After all I believe that it was Whitney Houston that sang the song that the children were our future. That saying and song is true…the children of today are the ones that will be fighting the fight tomorrow. The time has come for us to awaken the youth of America not just on the fact that politics ARE important and are directly linked to our everyday lives, but they need to be exposed to the true meaning of the Great Experiment and our country’s true history.

Now yes I know that if those polls were taken again today we would see an increase in those numbers, but that’s not what scares me. In less than 30 years we saw a drop of over 20% of those under 25 exercising their right to vote. That is a huge change in the number for the worst. It should have never reached that point. You cannot pick out one thing to blame, but if you had to single something out to take most of it I would have to say it’s the progressive machine run media and entertainment here in America. They shifted the focus and implied that politics were boring and unimportant. I suspect that this was done in order to make sure that the socialistic agenda of the progressive movement could be pushed through in the future with minimal resistance. Just a theory or personal opinion of mine, but to me it makes sense. At this point a quote from Thomas Jefferson comes to mind. He once said something along the lines of that there has never been, nor ever will be, a people who are politically ignorant and free. Once again Thomas Jefferson was right.

Now after September 11, 2001 and the events after the election of 2008 more and more Americans are waking up to the importance of getting involved with politics. We have seen more and more young fear that the children are without a doubt being indoctrinated into thinking that the socialistic agenda of the progressives is the way to go here in America. They are being hit at a young age being taught the bare minimum about our Republic and it’s history and traditions. The problem goes on through collage. Many of the most popular schools for a young adult to attend after high school are self proclaimed liberal schools. I recently purchased a text book that one would get in taking political science in collage. I haven’t’ read the whole thing, but so far there is no mention of the fact that America is a republic…as a matter of fact it declares us a democracy. Yes folks there is a big difference. It has class room work activities like role playing on how you can make a difference by being a political advocate on gun control. It also contains a whole chapter of lessons on Social Welfare Policymaking and Social Justice. From what I have read and what I have skimmed over the text book for this collage course is pro-left all the way. Now I ask you are the youth of America being properly educated?

The answer is simple, but takes all of us to get involved. We need to start in our own homes with our own children and then branch out to our communities. We need to wake up the youth on the importance to exercise our right to vote. We need to teach them how to use the well spring of informational sources on the internet and television to become well educated and informed voters. We need to teach them the true history and foundation of our great Republic, because if we don’t all the fighting we are doing now will be pointless because in the end American loses and the socialistic agenda of the progressives will win hands down.