Actually, Obama Abandoned Them!

Now that ‘hope and change’ have morphed into ‘hopelessness and change we didn’t bargain for’, young voters are beginning to abandon Barack Obama and his rigid, liberal ideology. Somehow, getting out into the real world seems to have awakened the Millennials (twenty somethings) and the Gen Xers (thirty somethings) to the reality that it is Obama who actually abandoned them. With the economy looming as the main issue in the upcoming general election, liberal theory is giving way to practicality among younger Americans who now see their hopes for a bright future fast fading. The legions of fired up young voters who catapulted an untested ‘community organizer’ into the White House in 2008 are largely gone, greatly disappointed by the bleak future that he has handed them.

What Happened to the Land of Opportunity?

Never mind your dream job! How about any job! Whether entering the ‘workforce’ directly from high school or after college, young Americans are having a difficult time finding meaningful work that would make them independent and self-sufficient. In fact, more and more of them are moving back in with Mom and Dad rather than risking the alternative…homelessness. The national debt is now at $15.6 trillion and each citizen’s share of that debt is hovering around $50,000. To their credit, those in their 20s and 30s are beginning to understand that they are the ones who will bear the brunt of the ever higher tax burden required to pay the interest on that debt to China. This, of course, will only lead to more Obama-style economic stagnation and ever more limited opportunities for young Americans to move up in a career of their choice. This gloomy forecast has many of them lowering their expectations for the future, while raising their interest in an alternative to Obama’s liberal agenda.

Time and Money Wasted in College

Many young Americans are holding outrageously expensive diplomas from dumbed-down universities…diplomas which are now nearly worthless in Obama’s recession. With no income to pay off their heavy student loan debts, they are placing the blame for this moribund economy squarely in Obama’s lap, right where it belongs. The President’s frequent visits to college campuses over the last few months in an attempt to recapture the student adulation he once enjoyed is testament to his concern over this major shift of loyalties. Young voters increasingly see Obama as an elitist professor of law who never left his ivory tower to tend to the business of the nation. They know that the Obamas are multimillionaire lawyers who can make $400 an hour and they are beginning to see them as part of the 1% Wall Street profligates, despite their protestations to the contrary.

Golf Carts Aren’t as Cool as Cars

At one time home ownership was the goal of every young adult in America. For many it is now only a distant dream. Even owning your own car has become a near impossibility for some. Obama’s stubborn refusal to unleash the energy potential of the United States, all for the sake of ‘environmental justice’, has almost ensured that gas prices will continue to climb, an outcome that his Secretary of Energy says he actually wants. The environmental gobbledygook that has been stuffed down the throats of public school students over the years is sounding a lot less noble now that those same students are young adults faced with the prospect of driving around in a golf cart instead of a car. Faced with a jobless future, higher taxes to pay interest on the national debt and the consequences of environmental extremism, it is these same young Americans who will have to shoulder an unfair proportion of the burden that America’s dalliance with socialism has cast upon the country. As they prepare to participate in the most important presidential election of a lifetime, young voters have had to make the transition from idealistic liberal to practical conservative much earlier in life than other generations. We salute them for rising to the occasion.