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Greetings!
This is the first Get Ready to Lead newsletter of 2010--our team has spent the last several weeks involved in intensive research, writing and planning and I look forward to sharing about what we've been up to and how it can help our subscribers.
I've decided to just write one GRTL newsletter each month this year. But I also plan to start two new newsletters--one for parents and one for Christian educators. Very soon you'll get an invitation from me to join these lists if you're interested.
Make it a great week!
Dr. Jeff Myers
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The Emerging Generation: Most Liberal Ever?
In his 2009 book The Death of Conservatism Sam Tanenhaus wrote, "What conservatives have yet to do is confront the large but inescapable truth that movement conservatism is exhausted and quite possibly dead."
When they talk about conservatives, Tanenhaus and others don't mean "Wall Street Fat Cats." Contrary to what most people think, Wall Street (and most big businesses across the U.S.) actually favor leftist causes and throw most of their money behind liberal political candidates. It's one of the weirdest secrets of mainstream liberalism.
No, the kind of conservatism on death watch here is pro-family, traditional-values, small-business-oriented conservatism. And to be fair, there is abundant evidence that recent victories by conservatives are a temporary phenomenon that will be overshadowed in the long run by young adults who are significantly more liberal than previous generations.
Much of the data about the shift from conservatism to liberalism among youth comes from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), which surveys hundreds of thousands of college freshmen every year and reports on changing trends. HERI found that in 2008...
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