Ann Coulter does the numbers and it is now a demographic battle in the US about who comes and who votes. It wasn’t the young after all who has voted to subvert the America of individual effort and personal responsibility. Ann tells a quite disturbing story:

On closer examination, it turns out that young voters, aged 18-29, overwhelmingly supported Romney. But only the white ones. . . .

What the youth vote shows is not that young people are nitwits who deserve lives of misery and joblessness, as I had previously believed, but that America is hitting the tipping point on our immigration policy.

The youth vote is a snapshot of elections to come if nothing is done to reverse the deluge of unskilled immigrants pouring into the country as a result of Ted Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act. Eighty-five percent of legal immigrants since 1968 have come from the Third World. A majority of them are in need of government assistance.

Whites are 76 percent of the electorate over the age of 30 and only 58 percent of the electorate under 30. Obama won the “youth vote” because it is the knife’s edge of a demographic shift, not because he offered the kids free tuition and contraception.

There is even this, which does seem to show there is a way out, as difficult as it may be:

Nearly 20 percent of black males under 30 voted for Romney, more than three times what McCain got.

It is working and paying taxes that may be the divide that matters. As she points out, it is immigration policy that is in the middle. And it will be the big issue of the future as the US does or does not submerge itself under a flood of migrants from places where no one can even conceivably be employed in a high tech, English speaking nation as the US for the time being now is. This is how she concludes:

Romney got a larger percentage of the white vote than Reagan did in 1980. That’s just not enough anymore.

Ironically, Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate in a long time not conspiring with the elites to make America a dumping ground for the world’s welfare cases. Conservatives who denounced Romney as a ‘RINO’ were the ones doing the bidding of the real establishment: business, which wants cheap labor and couldn’t care less if America ceases to be the land of opportunity that everyone wanted to immigrate to in the first place.

My previous post on Australia becoming a third world country has as the subtext that the parties of the left are actively ruining their countries for political advantage. Most of these people will never pay more in taxes than they take in welfare. But they’re not being brought here to work. They are being brought here to vote.

The American election has put up some interesting demographic effects for the future. Thinking about the American election once again, some depressing thoughts about the gender gap in the US which is emphasised by the marriage gap:

You don’t hear nearly as much about the rise of single voters, despite the fact that they represent a much more significant trend. Only a few analysts, such as Ruy Teixera, James Carville, and Stanley Greenberg, have emphasized how important singletons were to President Obama’s reelection. Properly understood, there is far less of a “gender” gap in American politics than people think. Yes, President Obama won “women” by 11 points (55 percent to 44 percent). But Mitt Romney won married women by the exact same margin. To get a sense of how powerful the marriage effect is, not just for women but for men, too, look at the exit polls by marital status. Among nonmarried voters​—​people who are single and have never married, are living with a partner, or are divorced​—​Obama beat Romney 62-35. Among married voters Romney won the vote handily, 56-42.

Far more significant than the gender gap is the marriage gap. And what was made clear in the 2012 election was that the cohorts of unmarried women and men are now at historic highs​—​and are still increasing. This marriage gap​—​and its implications for our political, economic, and cultural future​—​is only dimly understood.

Why is there a reluctance to marry? According to the article:

How did we get to an America where half of the adult population isn’t married and somewhere between 10 percent and 15 percent of the population don’t get married for the first time until they’re approaching retirement? It’s a complicated story involving, among other factors, the rise of almost-universal higher education, the delay of marriage, urbanization, the invention of no-fault divorce, the legitimization of cohabitation, the increasing cost of raising children, and the creation of a government entitlement system to do for the elderly childless what grown children did for their parents through the millennia.

There are, however, other considerations of first grade importance that have been left out. First is the changed moral climate that surrounds sexual relations. Boys like playing the field and girls find it more difficult to get some chap to commit. Secondly, since no-fault divorce also now includes divide-all-assets-in-half divorce and support-your-children-till-they’re-at-least-18 divorce, the potential costs of a failed marriage are ruinous. And because we live longer while the potential for extra-marital adventures are becoming more readily available, there is less to induce anyone to take the plunge. And since it is becoming easier to have the state pick up the tab on so many of the costs that were once a family burden, the financial advantages of marriage is melting away.

First let me start with this:

The text below is from a different article with a different chart but the result is just the same:

The apparent ‘decoupling’ of global heat from atmospheric CO2 concentrations — with the clear divergence of observed temperatures from projected temperatures — provides mounting evidence for falsification of IPCC climate models.

The conclusion:

Some observers of climate data are expecting the Earth to pass through at least a 30 year climate cooling period.

But if you are young you are generally less knowledgable. You therefore need something to show your independance even if that something is totally preposterous and impossible to believe if the facts are closely examined, But it is useful as a means to show independance and to differentiate yourself from your elders off you go. But really, why pick something so damaging that continuing along these lines will wreck your own life? The world is not apt to stay as it is, and your futures are not likely to be as rich and rewarding as were the lives of the generation now heading into retirement if by the policies you support you ruin our energy producing industries and raise production costs that send industry offshore. You may think you are being self sacrificing by your willingness to accept lower living standards for a better world with less carbon in the air. I just think you’re fools.

Which brings to mind this letter to the editor at Barron’s following the election. It was published under the heading, “A Warm Thank You” and so it is.

To the Editor:

This 50-something, white, conservative Republican wishes to thank America’s youth for sacrificing their financial futures and standard of living so that boomers, such as my wife and I, can look forward to a long and comfy retirement, which we could easily have afforded on our own. Now we have the youth as our guarantors and providers of a little something extra.

As reported by the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research, Americans aged 18 to 29 voted 60% to 36% for Barack Obama. Prior to Obama’s re-election, I believed that it was morally wrong for my generation to pass a crushing national debt on to the next one.

The debt will top $20 trillion before Obama moves out of the White House, and it will include spiraling retirement-related costs that the administration has shown zero interest in bringing under control, largely driven by baby boomers piling into the Social Security and Medicare systems.

With the president’s electoral crushing of Mitt Romney, my overriding sense of morality and guilt have vanished. Thank you, kids!

Edwin D. Schindler

The sad part for these fools is that they have shown little appreciation for irony. Such a bunch of nitwits, but at least there is that one silver lining that we will not have to live most of our lives led by such dumbells as these.