i give them 2 years max

Only in your bubble! Perhaps your post explains why Romney (and Rove on FOX) was so shocked to lose...he'd been counting on that mythical youth vote that supposedly suddenly turned conservative? What we have learned is that many of the youth can be apolitical. They vote for a candidate, don't see immediate changes, and stop voting....misunderstanding the way a government composed of 3 branches works--how a President needs a Congress who works with them to make changes, rather than a Congress sworn to block every bill introduced....

The change among the youth that tickles me the most is their reaction to the constant labeling and demonization of Democrats as "socialists," although the leaders (for example, President Obama) in question are rather conservative and definitely not socialists. So kids lost that old fear of the "socialist" bogeymen out to destroy the country and everything they hold dear. Now the youth are backing the real socialist, Bernie Sanders!

Unabashedly, unqualified and unapologetically socialist (as is social security, medicare, unemployment and disability insurance--although they are also capitalistic, promoted by the creator of capitalism--not Ayn Rand but Adam Smith, who wrote that capitalism requires a broad middle class with public education for their children as well as insurance programs to protect them in the event of accident or illness and old age, and capitalism requires that most evil of all, a protection from the ever-increasing divide between the rich and the workers. Capitalism cannot survive a concentration of wealth at the top according to Adam Smith. The youth are supporting the principles of Adam Smith, in the form of the one who is promising single payer health care, better public education that won't turn them into indentured servants for their entire careers--Bernie Sanders, the socialist. The labeling program has backfired big time!

BTW, those people who are supporting Trump may have no history of participation in politics, but they aren't young. The guy arrested for assaulting a protester, saying "next time" he "may have to kill" him, was 78! Those white supremacists who volunteered for Trump and were profiled by using the tattoos covering the upper half of their bodies were in their 30s. Not 18....

Proof that college kids (who gained the vote when it was changed to 18) are not Republican or conservative are in the Republican moves in state after state to prohibit college students from registering to vote in the cities or districts where they are students. The laws that allowed kids to register where they go to school and actually live at least most--3/4-- of the year (and often stay after graduating) were passed in the decade or 2 after the voting age was lowered. Districts grew around colleges and universities that were reliably liberal and voted Democratic. So Republican legislatures have been repealing these laws and enacting the opposite for the last decade, forcing college students to register and vote where their parents live--if their parents claim them as dependents... This can require either absentee ballots or travel--often across the country--to vote at all. So young people actually are forced to live in communities where they cannot vote for their own representatives or laws--in spite of residency and often jobs, taxes paid by them such as sales tax and indirectly through their rents, property taxes... Ad students are subject to the wishes of local communities who they greatly outnumber.

And provisions allowing students to vote at polling places set up on campuses have also been repealed by Republican legislatures. Forcing students that ARE registered where they go to school to travel into town to vote--often a big distance from campus, and students often don't own cars, so travel becomes difficult--esp when buses are canceled by cities not interested in students' votes....

Finally, Republican legislatures have passed laws prohibiting the use of school ID (with photo) as the necessary identification to vote. Requiring ID be granted by the federal or state government upon a showing of a birth certificate (not used to get school IDs). No purpose other than to reduce the number of votes cast by these students 18 to 21 that you believe are the new conservatives...why then do you suppose Republicans are the ones introducing and passing these voter suppression laws targeting the young? Socialists aren't doing it! Neither are Democrats. Hmmmm?

I'm thinking the no-one-over-30 rule would have been shelved within a few years. Max and his minions would have found reasons to remain in power for decades until the millenials forced them out. Sort of like The Hunger Games.