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correlation does not imply causation :^)

I think its just there are a lot of conservative kids these days because they're convinced that they're being cool and not mainstream by being conservative, and are also kind of brainwashed by all those anti-liberal pro-conservative memes. That's just my opinion, though. Liberal is the norm for many right now, and just in our general social structure the teens refuse to be part of the norm and grow up to be the opposite. Think about it this way- a lot of liberals came out of the baby boomer generation or generation X, because their parents were super conservative and defiance is just a natural trait. But I don't think its that leftists are silenced.