April 18, 2025
The new conservatives
By Andrea Widburg
It turns out that being raised around the fallout from crazy people may affect your political views. I say this because a new poll shows that there’s cause for optimism about the younger generation.
That’s actually not news to me. Four anecdotes explain why.
First, the fact that I was a child during the hippie era is one of the reasons I’m a conservative today. During my formative years, trips to Haight Ashbury exposed me to what happens when a society abandons the norms I still remembered from the pre-hippie era. We went from well-groomed, polite, nice-smelling people to wild-haired, filthy, stinking, scary people lying in their own filth. I was a Democrat because that’s how I was raised, but deep inside, I always knew where Democrat policies led.
Second, a decade ago, I found myself on a plane trip sitting next to an up-and-coming junior executive in his late 20s. He explained that his goal in life was to marry a woman who would be a stay-at-home mom for his children. He’d been raised by a single mother as a latch-key child and didn’t want to repeat that experience for his own children.
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