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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe J.D. Vance Electoral path to power!
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This is all real. The guy is a treasure trove. It is like they nominated your local barstool kook with no vetting at all.
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The J.D. Vance Electoral path to power! (Original Post)
Blue Cape
Jul 26
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DBoon
(22,833 posts)1. For those who don't want to use Elon Musks' Xitter
original article:
https://www.newsweek.com/demographics-are-gops-destinyif-they-embrace-it-opinion-1613168
Unlike race and identity, these variables make up the very core of demographic research. Consider a 2017 study by Ron Lesthaeghe and Lisa Neidert. It starts by discussing a phenomenon the authors call the "Second Demographic Transition" (SDT). By this they mean the fall of the stable nuclear family and the rise of more loose-knit forms of family formation. This movementwhich started at the end of the 1960swas accompanied by the "culture war" that has defined American politics ever since.
Lesthaeghe and Neidert try to quantify this shift. Using advanced statistical techniques, they create what statisticians call a "proxy" for the SDTthat is, a single variable that can stand in for a multifaceted phenomenon. The main components of this proxy are, according to the authors, "the postponement of both marriage and parenthood, low total fertility and lower teenage fertility, and in addition, higher levels of unmarried cohabitation, including same-sex couples, and procreation among cohabitors."
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That appears to be changing, however. In a speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's conference on the Future of American Political Economy, U.S. Senate candidate for Ohio J.D. Vance called for two things that, to anyone with their ear to the ground on family dynamics and voting patterns, sounded like an earthquake. First, he called for massive state support to help family formation. Second, he called for voting to be expanded to all Americans regardless of agewith the caveat that the vote of anyone under the age of 18 should be handed to the parents.
Irish_Dem
(55,272 posts)2. They know they cannot win honestly, so they have to stack the deck.
Irish_Dem
(55,272 posts)3. Does Vance ever say anything normal?
Emrys
(7,703 posts)4. Thoughts and prayers to him
It can't be easy going through life knowing you will never again be able to feature in a photo with soft furnishings.