A good question — by inadvertent guest blogger Mike Devx

Mike Devx meant the following to be a comment, but it’s such an important point, I’m making it a post:

I ran across a blurb on Instapundit:

JOE SCARBOROUGH’S NEW BOOK gets a rather unenthusiastic review from Nick Gillespie. “He unwittingly tells us that conservatives can at best stand athwart history yelling ‘Slow down,’ but they can’t fundamentally change its direction.”

So Ol’ Joe Scar’bro is basically saying that in America, conservatism is dead, and all we can do as conservatives is adopt the go-slow approach to Statism.

I do know I get the impression here in Book’s domain that we skew rather older.  Most of the time I’m surprised when various commenters let information slip that surprises me into saying “Wow! Another Book commenter that’s even older than me… and I’m heading towards 50 rather quickly.”

In other words, those who *care* about conservatism seem to skew older, at least on the Web.  If we are older, well, we’re vibrantly older, because there’s a freshness and spark and vitality to the breadth of comments that is very refreshing.

But where are the youngsters?  They *are* the future, and maybe right now, there’s no thirst for conservatism out there.  Or perhaps that person was on to something who said, “If you’re young and conservative, you’ve got no heart.  If you’re old and liberal, you’ve got no brain.”

So, does anyone have any thoughts?  Are we committed conservatives a dying breed, dinosaurs in the new Statist mammalian era?   (Where all people are warm-blooded and heart-gushingly concerned, because we “care”, dammit, and I can’t be bothered with logic or thought, because the only thing that matters is that we “care”?  Regardless of the devastating consequences of disastrous policies?)