...is this a false assumption?

I had a moment of interest in creating this study: a potential regression of sorts. It would look at what might be some exogenous factors that determine whether "the youth" vote more conservative or liberal through history. I really like this idea of looking historically to show trends. Though that line of logic always has held some merit to me, reading Joseph Schumpeter’s “Creative Response in Economic History” sparked my imagination again. I do agree though, that the constant battle that exists between a “the world never repeats itself” and “historical trends can predict future outcomes” is important to recognize, it is undeniable humans can be predicted to act with specific motives and this can be shown historically and is logical today as well.
At first I thought generally the youth are more liberal. This makes sense, right? Those crazy kids always F-up what we worked hard to achieve. But then I thought about it a while. Do we F it up? And Why is the youth more liberal, and I realized that this might be a false assumption. There have been obvious major shifts when liberalism may have become more popular among the youth but this phenomena may be due to other facts like war or lifestyle limitations. This makes perfect sense. If a policy restricts freedoms of a specific demographic that demographic is bound to resist. One would think that if the republicans were the party that opposed war, all other factors constant, then we might see more youth opting to be conservative and being more sympathetic towards some other conservative ideas they might have otherwise opposed based solely on party affiliation. Anyway, I came across this website that has demographic data on youth in America. Maybe we’re wrong. Maybe those ideas of tradition do flow more constantly then we think. I would predict that “the youth,” in America, being more liberal as a demographic is a direct result of infractions on their liberty. The Vietnam War, Prohibition, and all the other crap the government does against young’ins. This is what makes youth liberal. I predict a lower rate of leftism among the youth during times of media stagnation and less degradation of the youth’s freedom. http://www.civicyouth.org/

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