In the past 15 months, I have found myself supporting four different candidates for President: Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and now billionaire businessman and Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump. As a 14-year-old, I may not be able to vote in this election, but I am deeply invested in its outcome.
Some have ridiculed me for supporting various candidates across the ideological spectrum. In a condescending blog post last December, conservative radio host Erick Erickson accused me of desperately seeking attention, questioned my intellectual capacity and instructed me to “shut up, and go live life.” This reaction makes one thing clear: many people in the “old guard” do not have the slightest understanding of the political philosophies of my generation.
I believe that the future of America is post-party politics. I hope that in 10 to 20 years, the near constant issue of partisanship will be a distant memory.
More...http://time.com/4470565/teens-for-trump/
That sounds like my own progression as a 50-yo, but with some modifications. I didn't start paying any real attention until super Tue and prior to that just on philosophy I figured Paul would be the best hope if he made it that far...his filibuster attempt against extrajudicial robo-killings of Americans in America is one of the things which had an impact on me. He didn't make it that far however. I never had any use for Cruz, and if it were between someone like him (which I had expected from the Repubs) and Sanders, I would have voted Sanders but that would have been more to support a generic insurgency since he seems like an illiterate in many ways.
Only after I actually started researching did I realize that there was a lot about Trump that I could support and not much that I could not. Also, the media is so ridiculously against the guy that there is reason to believe him to be 'for real.'
I'm hopeful that this youth is a bellwether, but am not holding my breath. There will be some fraction of people who are resistant to the various psychological condition directed at this cohort but I doubt it will be high. I'd love to be wrong about this and I would love to see the conditioning be more reversible than I expect, but again, not holding my breath.