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Millennials Can’t Handle Reality, Are We Doomed?
IWB ^ | Robert Carbery

Posted on 11/19/2017 7:58:27 AM PST by davikkm

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1 posted on 11/19/2017 7:58:27 AM PST by davikkm
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Those gender studies degrees are pretty useless.


2 posted on 11/19/2017 8:01:24 AM PST by EdnaMode
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MORONialls. Let's call em what they are. Although there are a few I know who have it together. 🙀
3 posted on 11/19/2017 8:02:40 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Millennials Can’t Handle Reality, Are We Doomed?

They think everything happening to them is new, that nobody before them went through a "crisis" the same.

Who did not buy a new car too many or run up credit cards in their 20's?

4 posted on 11/19/2017 8:02:45 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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I know it's fashionable to consider Millenials a bunch of self-absorbed Obamabots. However, I don't think it's elderly National Review readers who are buying all of Milo's books or going to his speeches - which are NOT about "me me me" but something bigger.

Deplorable parents are undoubtedly advising Deplorable millenials to hang up when a telemarketer calls, or walk away from dopes with clipboards, thus causing an underweighting in polls. Thus, any poll etc speaking of Millenials being this or that are suspect.

Finally, remember that by most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started.

I thnk we are seeing history repeat itself. The left/Loyalists are painting the Patriots/Deplorables as intransigent dolts who must be brought to their knees and Kiss the Ring, for their own good. In turn, the Patriots/Deplorables are not going quietly into the night, using new media to outsmart the Establishment and bring otherwise neutral parties to the side of truth and freedom.

In turn, the kids of Deplorables likely are as much "underground" as are their parents in polls, etc. The whining Antifa losers get all the airtime. Where the Deplorable, responsible Millenials ARE visible, among other places, is on memes and the like....have you ever seen how many pro-Trump meme pics there are vs anti-Trump? I doubt that's coming from a bunch of geezers. And, younger military personnel are, well, MILLENIALS.

Thus, I wouldn't so easily assume the millenials are largely commies or narcissistic oafs.

5 posted on 11/19/2017 8:03:00 AM PST by DoodleBob
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I think they will figure it all out over the course of the next 7 years or so.

When I was very young, I thought bees were friendly. I wanted to pick one up. My brother told me not to. But I did anyway. I learned a lot about the reality of bees very quickly. It blew away all my misconceptions and taught me a lesson that has stayed with me the rest of my life.


6 posted on 11/19/2017 8:04:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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Agreed, but still it’s fun to watch “Royals” by Lorde on youtube. Or “Gotta love Millennials”.

And if most Millennials aren’t flaky, then why do we now have PUMPKIN FLAVORED everything!!!?


7 posted on 11/19/2017 8:06:16 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: EdnaMode

Not really - they can serve fries with that.


8 posted on 11/19/2017 8:08:02 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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Millenials are facing the reality that there are few “ defined benefit plans” out there anymore regarding retirement...

Instead they need to go work for the government, losing their individuality, or see the reality that the bashing of business success that will drive the value of their 401k is a loser if they follow the Dem mantra.

They are facing catch 22’s all around and may just wake up that they have been feed a pack of lies in their educational experience...


9 posted on 11/19/2017 8:10:42 AM PST by patriotspride
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Like Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when they got surrounded by 2000 Comanches...”where do you get that “we”? Paleface”.

If the millennials can’t handle reality, it isn’t going to affect “us” much.


10 posted on 11/19/2017 8:11:14 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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So: the typical millennial doesn't think his job is fun, he's looking to Tinder to find true love, he's buried in student loan debt with a degree that doesn't pay, and he's not buying a home despite record low interest rates -- mostly, if truth be told, because he's postponing marriage and doesn't want to commit to anything that would tie him down.

And these things are the world's fault, not the result of questionable priorities and bad decisions. Electing Bernie would have solved these problems, because socialism would engage in massive levelling, thus eliminating the status anxiety caused by resentment of peers who made better choices. This is why the millennials are drifting left. Got it.

11 posted on 11/19/2017 8:12:16 AM PST by sphinx
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God is not mentioned; He is apparently not a factor in any of this.


12 posted on 11/19/2017 8:13:24 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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Reality will slap most of them in face hard enough to knock sense into them.


13 posted on 11/19/2017 8:13:31 AM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. And what makes it even more despicable is that the)
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I tend to agree with your assessment. I do know some absolutely worthless millennials, but by contrast I know far more that are responsible people.

The media is grabbing the lefties of the bunch and making them to look like they are the mainstream millennials, similar to what they are doing the Black people.

I’m also of the belief the campus snow flakes are just pampered rich kids from lefty parents which are actually a minority at the schools, but get all the attention from the media and leftist administrators.


14 posted on 11/19/2017 8:14:35 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: davikkm

Sounds about right.


15 posted on 11/19/2017 8:15:07 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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” facing the reality that there are few “ defined benefit plans” out there anymore regarding retirement...”

And remember the modern MBA line. A defined benefit plan where the employer takes a hunk of your pay for several decades and professionally invests it is mathematically impossible. But you running your own IRA and coming up with the same outcome is no big deal.


16 posted on 11/19/2017 8:15:50 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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They said the same thing about us Boomers.


17 posted on 11/19/2017 8:15:57 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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They’ve been brainwashed into demanding free stuff from those of us who work for a living. Wage redistribution. It’s a commie thing.


18 posted on 11/19/2017 8:17:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: DesertRhino

Agreed..
I’m thinking Retirement.

Living IN a van down by the RIVER!


19 posted on 11/19/2017 8:20:53 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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>>Those gender studies degrees are pretty useless.

Those tech degrees are pretty useless (offshoring with development being done in China and India now for major US companies).

Those law degrees are pretty useless now (automation handles the low level tasks of forms and research).

Those construction skills are pretty useless now (unless you habla espanol).

Those manufacturing skills are pretty useless now (automation and imported).

Those burger flipping skills are pretty useless now (automation and fat shaming).


20 posted on 11/19/2017 8:21:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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