Posted on 12/05/2018 4:14:08 AM PST by rustyweiss74
If they hate this country so much, doesn’t it make them wonder why so many people are trying to get in illegally?
-Dem Millenials accounted for 36% of their age bracket, vs 20% R, with 26% Independent and 13% "not sure." Thus, if 19% of this age bracket think the flag is a sign of intolerance and hatred, that could simply mean about half of Dem millenials feel that way while Normal Millenials don't feel that way at all.
-The Millenials they sampled are overindexed Blue geographically (Northeast and West).
-Finally, they oversampled college-educated Millenials.
Pew did a study showing the D/R/I split amongst registered Millenials to be 35/17/44. Notwithstanding some issues I have with Pew's approach, it is a generally sound study.
This study includes Millenials who aren't registered. Thus, the percentages they report need to be adjusted to be comparable to the Pew study to assess oversampling.
On an adjusted basis, the D/R/I split in this study is 42/23/30. So this study jacks the D sample vs Pew +7 vs +5 for R and -14 for I (and +2 for Other). In other words, the risk of Millenials independents swaying the outcome was lessened and the likelihood of Millenials Dems swaying the study was heightened.
In addition, the adjustment I made assumes that had this study's researchers omitted the unregistered voters and polled only registered voters, that the percentages wouldn't have changed. This could have been rectified by a proper design...which suggests the pollster wasn't interested in doing a thorough job...just to prove their point.
It is a fair point that this study wasn't focused on registered voters and, thus, such a design wasn't warranted. But the fact remains the study CLEARLY was designed to draw generational differences and, IMHO, make Millenials look bad. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG) provides educational resources, so the sensationalist headline furthers their cause.
But time after time we see all Millenials aren't the same. Yes, there are a large number of pod-eating, Antifa-loving snowflakes who yell at you while you eat a burger. But there are large numbers of Deplorable Millenials who think their snowflake brethren are freaks. Indeed, many of us point out there are RINOs and #NeverTrumpers amongst "conservatives" but we don't paint with a broad brush on that front.
Had this study's creators reported the results and did a little investigation, they'd likely have found a YUGE split, where many Millenials side with GenX and Normal Americans on the issue of the flag. Indeed, Millenials had a larger percentage of respondents vs older groups, that think poorly of neighbors who DON'T fly the flag on holidays. But that doesn't fit the narrative so let's bury it in the back of the study and miss a GREAT opportunity to support Millenials who aren't snowflakes.
Trump won by 78k votes. There are a slew of Millenials wating to be red-pilled by lots of Deplorable Millenials - and older Deplorables who don't fall for the sensationalism of garbage polls.
And 50 percent of millenials couldn’t find their ass with both hands, a flashlight and a map.
America needs to cull the herd if we are going to survive. These people need to be given an opportunity to leave and turn down their citizen rights so they cannot further destroy us.
Yeah but at least 15% of Millennials are too stupid to suck air and another 15% are too busy contemplating their own navels to notice what day of the week it is. I'm actually kinda surprised that some of them know what country they live in. Its a start I suppose.
Time to require all able-bodied males and females to register for Selective Service in order to get college loans and other goodies that they expect handed to them.
I thought the same thing. Basically, that 20% coincides with the percentage of people in the overall population who would classify themselves as Hard Left.
What they mean is the country is intolerant and hateful. So get the hell out!
My SO (military trained) and I have had many a lively discussion as to whether the youth of this country would defend it if foreign powers invaded.
Both of us think the collective reaction would be a “meh’ and a refocus on Instagram.
The young believe that other governments will simply pick up where the USA left off and, more importantly, Leave Them Alone to do whatever they do do so long as they do not care who is in power.
I do not think it occurs to the youth that their quiescence and cooperation will not be viewed as a positive to the invaders, but as dead meat to be swept aside to make room for themselves.
“Dildoes With Cell Phones”. I guess that’s why everyone on the friggin’ planet is trying to figure out a way to get into the land of “intolerance and hatred”. I knew this was going to happen once they politicians legalized drugs and made the worship of sexual perverts mandatory.
So having gone through the liberal indocrination process (public school, universities), 20% come out thinking this country is evil. One could say that the bottom 20% are the only ones stupid enough to believe the liberalist lies.
If you could go back in time and show the boys at cold harbor how their great great great grandkids would turn out, do you think they would still charge those rebel trenches?
Yeah. At any given time, 20% of the population is batsh!t crazy anyway.
A question for those millennials. What Flag did millions of Europeans and others cheer for as soldiers marching under that Flag liberated them the Axis powers. Sorry I realize being a millennial you will need to look up “the Axis Powers” but you live on your phone anyhow so there is that!
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