People, Personas, and Politics 19 – Earnest Babies
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/07
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I have heard a perverse form of optimism from the perspective of much of the political Left in America. And I want to get your perspective on this as well.
Rick Rosner: Okay.
SDJ: Where the hope in terms of the voting demographics is that older Republicans with “outmoded ideas” ad other such phrases will die and leave room for more votes of democrats to weigh more heavily into the possibility of a democratic election victory, to me, it seems like a dark form of optimism and a little cruel.
RR: That’s one of several demographic trends. Another is that the US becomes less and less of a white nation at some point. In the next decade, white people will become less than 50% of the population and non-whites tend to not vote Republican. I’ve heard that every presidential cycle. The democratic advantage goes up by 2% because Republicans who tend to be older tend to age out of the population.
Because of immigration and reproduction, the democrats slowly gain an advantage, but it is not an advantage that democrats have been able to exploit over the last 20 years because democrats are earnest babies who don’t play as mean as the Republicans.
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