Most concerning is the lack of youth-orientated voter outreach initiatives endorsed or created by the right.
The contributions and influence that youths and people of color have on the national perspective and election results is overlooked extensively. I worry this gives the perception of GOP think tanks and the Conservative Powers that be are complacent that these demographics are “immovable.” I know from working with a few right-wing groups, that confidence does exists in converting this base, and I also know from forming an organization of my own on an HBCU campus, that this base WILL listen, if you are persistent and dedicated enough. Persistent enough to accept defeat and continue and dedicated enough to research an answer for every negative response you encounter.
Frugality, personal responsibility, Christianity, patriotism and family values are universal concepts, this does not mean they are universally popular. The approach must be creative and geared toward age and color demographics in an appealing way.
There are several ethnic minorities and young persons who believe in the core values I’ve mentioned, but this audience also must be bombarded with images, messages and popular icons to take the right seriously if there is any chance of dispelling liberal bias.
The left has FAR too many mediums to attract our base.
The first of which, is JOBS. Some liberal organizations promise teens big money for pushing their issues: groups like Dialogue Direct, Grassroots Campaigns, Green Peace and others, that put big dollars in the pockets of most people between the ages of 16 and 25, who are in college or in transition. These places grasp kids’ financial interest, promising summer jobs with no contractual obligation as well as pulls at their heart strings, urging them to “make a difference with compassion”, while in the same breath ragging on the right for not mandating foreign relief from taxpayers.
Other leftist youth-targeted mediums do not allude to be left at all, they are “non-partisan” in name, but left in policy, principle and actions. The second method is through “Faux-Non-Partisan Interest Groups.” They claim to care about youth political involvement of no party affiliation, but have only liberal opinions on green jobs, global warming, immigration, abortion, gay rights and the like. Groups like “Campaign for America’s Future” and “League of Young Voters Education Fund.” Both of these groups sound totally politically neutral, and this guise is rampant amongst liberal mediums, they not only push liberal beliefs, they also specifically target high school and college students, as well as ethnic minorities respectively. They advertise in high schools, community colleges, universities and a load of online job sites.
Lastly, and worse than the non-profit posers are the big names and faces of Celebrity political endorsers. Celebrities are idolized when they attest to their leftist, morally relative lifestyles. Celebs like Lady Gaga, P. Diddy, Aubrey O’ Day, Beyonce, Paris Hilton and countless others are unanimously popular among teens. Will I.Am of the Black-Eyed Peas, released a highly You-Tubed, video “Yes We Can” prior to the ’08 election which was run on BET so often, you’d forget they were a music network. Unfortunately for all conservatives, these methods worked like a charm, when 96% of the black registered population voted democrat, as well as 75% of the youth registered vote, these are unprecedented numbers.
· Youth Republican National Federation- idle.
It is obvious to me as the chair of the Savannah State University that the GACR should begin the first Unlikely Demographic Based Initiative. I would be happy to work extensively on this.
I am thinking of local high schools and middle schools as places to make a conservative presence known or felt through open-ended mediums like community service, neutral civic education agencies like the Youth Leadership Institute’s E-Congress site where students can stay politically active. Success may be measurable at a senior high school level, engaging numbers of “unlikely demographic” conservative voters.
All readers, let me know what you think of this initiative.
2 comments:
I wrote something in March of last year and this reminded me of that. Politics has got so ugly that I hate to see either party reach towards high school students. Here is what I wrote last year:
You can sit down any night of the week and hear these political experts tell why the democrats can fix this economy or can't fix it. Turn it to MSNBC and they will tell you what's wrong with the republicans. Turn it to Fox News and they will tell you what's wrong with the democrats. CNN will have people on their set to give you both sides. Who do you trust? Do you trust anyone or a particular network?
Here's my thought process. Let's start with the democrats. The democrats in past years have had good intentions, but some of their programs have acted as crutches. For example, welfare was only supposed to be temporary, but it became a way of life for some folks. I have seen with my own eyes how generations after generations grew up on welfare. I think this took away from people's potential. Even today we have to watch the democrats, because they are capable of implementing a program with "crutchable" outcomes. We as American citizens have to learn to depend on family and friends again instead of the government.
The republicans have been quite the opposite. If you make less than a fortune, then you don't matter. The government should not help you with anything. They have made it, then so should everybody else. I look at the mess we are in right now. Republicans were the architect of this economy. People like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are the leaders of the party. Those two leaders themselves would be comical if they weren't so sad, however this party is in a terrible state right now.
Who do I trust? It's hard for me to trust politicians. They act like children. How can you agree with everything that your political party supports? I don't agree with anybody all the time. That alone tells me that political affiliation is phony. Who do I trust? I trust me!
http://umaynotagree.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-do-you-trust.html
It is never about agreeing with EVERYONE in your party, you would have to be a nut to say everyone who votes like you is sane or reasonable, the idea is where a person's principles typically lie. Fox news is biased, sure but CNN is no different, any conservative watching CNN will get the same impression as liberals do watching Fox. CNN has played shows like "Same-sex America," and "Gay Injustice", more than CURRENT TV! Trust me, there just much more subtle with how they go about it, because they spin it as "news." You will rarely here CNN take a patriot's perspective or sympathize with a patriot as it pertains to topics like illegal immigration, in which most of their coverage shows the hardships of living here on the hideout, despite the fact its A COMPLETELY ELECTIVE CHOICE. Liberals, are no more open minded than conservatives, they just pretend to be.
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