Olliff - Cooper, an executive member
of the young Conservative thinktank Bright Blue, has worked across Whitehall, first in the Conservative Party Policy Unit and later for the Cabinet Office.
His election coincided with the election of a group
of young conservative Reformers, including Jason Kenney and Rahim Jaffer.
The GOP is alienating a generation
of young conservative voters by ignoring climate science, say Kiera O'Brien and Ben Zollinger.
The following remarks were delivered last night at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC upon reception
of the Young Conservatives Coalition's annual Buckley Award.
«To survive, we're going to have to become the big tent party that we always were,» says Torrey Shearer, a member of the leadership committee
of Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, which, along with Log Cabin Republicans, took out a full - page ad in Wednesday's Tampa Tribune calling on the GOP to support gay - marriage rights.
Andrew Griffith A former - indeed the final - national chairman
of the Young Conservatives, he stood in Corby at both the 2001 and 2005 general elections.
Not exact matches
Young people should also be more
conservative with their budgeting, said Gabriel Anderson, CFP and founder
of Crafted Wealth Management.
This weekend, the
Conservatives are backing a 48 - hour open data hackathon in which hundreds
of young developers from across
LincolnLabs, founded last year by three
young tech workers, is trying to create a sort
of community for the Silicon Valley's «conservatarians,» a play on
conservatives and libertarians.
The more traditional approach, which developed out
of mean variance analysis some fifty years ago, tailors an individual's portfolio to his or her age,
young investors should take more risk with stocks, and attitudes toward risk,
conservative investors should hold more cash.
The year before Trump announced his presidential bid, the data firm already had found a high level
of alienation among
young, white Americans with a
conservative bent.
Conservative Party
of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer tabled the Supporting New Parents Act Monday, a bill the party says will offer tax relief to
young families.
Despite strong support for sending federal
Conservatives to Ottawa, Alberta is now a much more progressive and moderate province than it was 20 years ago, when a
young Mr. Kenney was roaming the halls
of the Legislature as the spokesperson for the taxpayers federation.
In addition, 85 percent
of Unum's insured lives are in group long - term care with a much
younger client profile, funded mostly by employers and with smaller benefit levels with more
conservative plan designs, he said.
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So David's article is interesting more for its listing
of various
young conservatives than its actual content.
The Randians really are doing the best job
of mobilizing what can be loosely called the
conservative young.
What our political culture hasn't come to terms with is that the proliferation
of right -
of - center broadcasting has coincided with (probably) a smaller percentage
of Americans (and especially
younger Americans) hearing
conservative opinions at length, in language they understand.
The idea seems to be that
conservatives are too out
of touch with the other half
of America, much
of it
younger, less religious, less white, and generally not exposed to any
conservative media.
These
younger scholars are not so much a part
of the coalition that elected Page as they are potential allies for
conservatives within a reconciled Baptist future.
And, speaking from personal experience, he gave burgeoning
young conservatives the tools to get away with criticizing liberalism in a room full
of liberals.
A bright
young student raised in a tradition
of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background
of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause
of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side
of the struggle.»
In the case
of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some
of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from
Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively
conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.
«Anyone who does just a little digging on Bethke's YouTube channel or on Google will quickly learn that this
young poet is a
conservative Christian and member
of the Mars Hill Church led by controversial pastor Mark Driscoll,» writes Patheos blogger Brian Kirk, a Missouri - based pastor.
For those
of us who have been told that we are too much — too loud, too opinionated, too smart, too bold, too quiet, too curvy, too skinny, too sexual, too intense, too feeling, too soft, too tender, too
young, too old, too liberal, too
conservative — may we say: you belong here with us.
Around 65 per cent
of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the
Conservative Party and
younger people generally voting Labour.
Evangelical churches that frequently support
conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest
of us have known for some time: Their
young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.
I consider myself somewhat
conservative and generally in line with alot
of republican views — and alot of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country
of republican views — and alot
of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country
of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL
of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country
of the
YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK
OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country
OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country!!
Their
conservative leanings are part
of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates
of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the
young and a rise in the percentage
of teenagers who say they are virgins.
Of course, even some «adult»
conservatives have proven poor role models for the
young.
The debate over how to attract
young voters is symptomatic
of the challenges faced by American
conservatives.
Media brainwashing has corrupted a whole generation
of young people against the church, because
of the media's left stance vs the church being more
conservative — they'll see the truth, but hopefully not too late..
The threat
of a lawsuit from 10
conservative state attorneys general has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that protects children
of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too
young to have a say.
A widely publicised conflict broke out in one
of the synagogues between a
conservative elderly rabbi and a radical
young rabbi who was all for change.
Friedman notes Irving Kristol's observation that «In America all successful politics is the politics
of hope,» and ends on a guardedly hopeful note that the
younger generation
of conservative — or at least more
conservative — Jews has learned that lesson.
Friedman thinks a major change may be under way, citing the large number
of younger Jewish intellectuals and writers who identify themselves as
conservative.
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one
of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The
Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the
conservative wing
of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all
of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
The picture
of this (relatively)
young, diverse, and
conservative group produced cries
of what - might - have - been if only Trump hadn't mucked everything up.
Our
young conservative politicians, ambitious and studious «organization kids,» were raised in classrooms and Chamber
of Commerce luncheons.
My guess is that winning a larger share
of younger voters will have to involve major changes in
conservative policy priorities, rhetoric, and media strategy.
Rockefeller's subsequent divorce
of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much -
younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother
of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds
of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging
of a large wedge
of voters that now consciously identified itself as
conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.
Once puberty hit then girls were married off to become mothers often at ages that «
conservative» Christians would condemn these days, and
young men went off to long hours
of work, thus keeping them out
of trouble.
I'm * not * exactly «
conservative» (I don't believe a «
young earth» is Biblical and I'm for gun control), but some
of the more
conservative brethren have points too.
The great news is that traditional
conservative Catholic Christian orders not associated with this self - licking matriarchy
of aging «hippie nuns», are overflowing with
young postulates.
Even though it won't be released until June
of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the
conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a
young adult — is really starting to come to life.
And that is all the more why I denounce those
conservatives who gleefully snipe at the purported weirdness or pretentiousness
of a
young ambitious man who — gasp!
Nor is it to be found in most
of the discussions about the virtue and value
of public service for America's
young people, discussions that have been going on for some years now» for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both liberals and
conservatives.
Further, many
of our
conservative brothers and sisters have justified or ignored the deaths
of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and other
young black men.
It is part
of Boyagoda's accomplishment in this book to show the deep continuities that coursed through the life
of Richard John Neuhaus and bound the
young radical to the older
conservative.
Significant numbers
of millennials (
young people born in the 1980s and 1990s) will continue to walk away from socially
conservative religious traditions.