While I can't condone the "FU" comment I do concur with the rest of the sentiments replied to here. Politics are downstream culture, and culture is downstream faith. You're seeing a spiritual issue, not a politics/work ethic issue. Of course no one wants to work hard for 60 years - not when you're completely divorced from a system of ethics, particularly that which the Bible teaches.
If you're not a Christian you're likely already disregarding this, and if you are, hopefully you realize this - at least subconsciously. You can't become more liberal in order to appeal to liberals in hopes of moving them towards conservatism. It will never ever work. This is why we have lost the cultural battles over the last 40 years.
This is a pretty poor definition of winning, imo.