Posted on 05/01/2016 10:11:11 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
1. Younger people tend to have more liberal views. This is not a permanent state of being. Asking a 20 year old who has never held a job about capitalism is not a good use of anyone's time. Asking him ten years later whether he thinks he pays too much in taxes will be far more meaningful. Polls of younger people tend to produce scary results. This isn't a new phenomenon.
2. Using "millennial" as a political punching bag is a bad idea. We're talking about people who were born over a 20 year period. Plenty of them hold jobs and are... conservatives. I say this as a Generation X'r (the generation that was being used as a political punching bag before the dreaded millennial came along) who with some years difference could be on the millennial side of the line. They are people that conservatives should be reaching out to. I know the temptation of the easy "millennials" line followed by an eye-roll. I've done it myself. But it's also lazy and unhelpful. Go back far enough and there were people rolling their eyes at your generation and assuming that they'll amount to nothing.
3. The average millennial is not screaming about safe spaces on campus. Just as the average baby boomer wasn't taunting Vietnam vets on campus. College left-wing activists, of whatever generation, tend to be narcissistic sociopaths with less impulse control and sense of right and wrong than a lobotomized wolverine on crack. They don't represent a generation. That's what the left wants you to think.
4. Each generation has been worked over by an increasingly politicized public education system which also increasingly punishes any form of dissent. Millennials are the products of the worst educational system this country has ever seen. Until their successors come of age. This is a huge problem and the way to tackle it is not with cliches about a narcissistic generation. The youth of every generation tend to be narcissistic. Because they're young. Conservatives have to connect with the concerns of a younger generation rather than alienating them by dismissing them out of hand.
Indeed. What was said about my generation wasn’t very flattering.
The millenials I know are terrific
Like the requirement to be at least 35 years of age to become President, so should be the voting age.
I’ve met all kinds. Hell, even my boss is a millennial. Some work hard, some don’t. They ALL seem to put leisure time ahead of anything else. I have enough vacation time saved up for four people to have a great time. A millennial typically has none.
The ones that don’t work hard are the most frustrating to deal with. Deadlines and obligations simply don’t matter, unless it fits in with their “off time”. They consider themselves to be infinitely talented, when they are usually just treading water.
There are a few, however, that just stand out as great, organized, solid people. They are even more disillusioned with their peers than I am.
And they should be property owners and receiving no welfare payments from the government or employed by the government (except for military and public safety personnel).
I would add military or national service of some sort. no skin in the game, no vote.
If that pisses off liberals, OK, only propery owners..............Same reasoning. If you do not have a stake, you do not get to vote yourself a stake.
Beat me by 2 seconds with similar thoughts..........
Heh, could’ve signed off to go to bed without posting in the thread. :-P
The ideas you both present work for me.
My nephew, son, and his friends were all Millenials. In 2007 they thought Obama was the next bet thing to buttered bread. Now they hate his guts. They know they were fooled but they’ve repented and are now conservatives after learning that socialism is the way elitists amass huge fortunes off the backs of the middle class while stealing from them and the lower classes as well. Even a 19 year old kid at our church has turned conservative after seeing how evil the left really is. Yeah people AREvwaking up. It’s going to be a new day. Trump better wear body armor and have 24/7 protection because he has the leftist freeloaders crapping in their pants scared they’re going to have to work for a living and actually pay taxes
Depends on which young folks are being discussed. I more often see young folks who are tougher, smarter and much more technically capable than others. Drive them out, and they’ll be back.
Gertrude Stein trashed Hemingway’s generation by declaring them the Lost Generation.
I hereby declare the beheadable millenials as the Last Generation because they will single-handedly destroy all of humanity, either out of self destructiveness, apthy, or incompetence.
Can we call them the Millenemy?
And public-sector unionized to boot.
“the requirement to be at least 35 years of age to become President”
There is uber proof that the minimum age should be raised to 45, and I’ll just let it go at that.
Well, let us know when you figure out how to separate them from “Socialist Stupid”.
You’re correct of course, and that age may even be 55 by now. When the Constitution was created 35 was probably even a bit too long, but now it is too soon. So now 45/55 equals 35 of yore.
Yeah, I get that. If, as they like to say (whoever “they” are), 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15. There is a lot of truth in that, however unfortunate.
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