Posted on 10/13/2016 3:17:54 PM PDT by Babsig
Just picked up my daughter from college (U of SC) for the weekend, and on the way home of a two hour drive we talked politics. She said EVERYONE she knows and all the social media outlets she uses have her age group either not voting or they are voting third party. It's big w most her age that this how they are thinking. They hate both major party candidates. The Dems are not going to get the age group this time.
How to be elected president in 2 easy steps:
Step 1: Go to your local courthouse.
Step 2: Have your name changed to “None of the Above”.
Had me the same talk with my son who is also a millennial and he tells me exactly the same thing. These kids are very sophisticated they get their news from Reddit and other sources and right now it’s a tsunami of never Hillary meme!! They hate her with a passion! So I can vouch for your report...Hitlery needs this age group like ovomit did...SHE AINT GONNA GET IT!!! My son is a Bernie supporter to the core but I know that I can convince him to vote for Trump even if he has to hold his nose!
Well initial reports were that the Millenials were starting to lean towards Trump so I’m guessing the the Hillary propaganda machine is up to their old tricks.
I had an absolutely similar experience when politics came up with my daughter (freshman, 18) who was home on break from a college in Philadelphia this past week end (we live in upstate NY - she just happens to go to college in Philly).
I was going to post my experience to get out there my observation of this emerging phenomenon, and was pleased to see that you got to it first.
My daughter has decided not to vote because she “doesn’t like either candidate”. She was never a Bernie fan as we are a conservative family, but (only recently - we thought she would vote and vote Trump) bought the peer pressure that Trump is somehow a bigot or big mouth or whatever. Sadly my husband and I were not successful in disabusing her of this false perception of Trump.
At any rate, her age cohort is clearly staying home on purpose. Although my daughter has never been a blind follower of her age cohort (she would never be pro choice, for example), I could detect echoes that she is thinking the same as her peers by deciding not to vote.
I was not pleased that she isn’t voting Trump however I’ll take it that this age group is not voting Hillary - they can’t stand her.
It was also obvious that they are firm in this; she purposefully let the registration deadline go by and I am sure that many if not most of the rest of them are doing the same.
I have kids in elementary school and kindergarten. How do I keep them from becoming libtard? Any advice would be welcome.
That means they are allowing a rapist protecting woman, who went after the victims of the rapist, to be elected. Hope they like their future kids being forced to learn about TRANSGENDERISM in their school curriculum, and being forced into government SERVICE....
Home school.
Depends on the campus and even then it is not homogeneous. Extrapolating from one person’s college experience to the whole US is like extrapolating from yard signs. Not too accurate.
My daughter who is going to community college and living at home in California is very conservative and is voting Trump. She just went to each candidates websites and read their positions and decided on Trump.
My son who just graduated from Texas A&M hates Trump, but he has a lot of disdain for Hillary too. I’m not sure he’s registered to vote, and I will not be reminding him to register. He does like to read reddit, so I keep on sending him there about wikileaks.
My daughter at the University of Alabama now says she’s a democrat. Her boyfrind is very political, and will probably be president of the college democrats next year. I sent her the Briebart interview of Juanita Brodderick and Paula Jones, and she texted me saying that she never said she is voting for Hillary. I think she won’t be a Democrat when she and boyfriend break up, and they are starting to have problems.
Don’t send them away to college. Keep them off Facebook as long as possible. Take them to church. Pray.
Agreed. I wonder if (with all due respect to others here) if it would have honestly been too much to expect a big en masse vote for Trump among youth. My feeling (correct me if I am wrong) is many of them staying home or voting Green probably harms the Democrats more than it does Republicans.
Boy they've got it 180 degrees bass-ackwards if they are withholding their vote now. They, much more than the older people, are going to have a longer and more severe sentence under the shackles of Marxism.
The old will get a taste of it and die... but the young like them are setting themselves up for a lifetime of poverty, lies, frustration, and misery.
One of the best memories I have is of casting my first vote ever for Ronaldus Magnus in 1980 as a young student at Indiana University. In a small way I felt a part of that revolution, just as I feel a part of this one.
And it is no surprise that the apathy that was the hallmark of Carter way back then is EXACTLY what we are seeing now with our Turbo-Clinton-Fatigued USA...
Millenials of today need to jump on the wagon and come in with the big win, now as then. This could be the best time of their political and economic lives, and Trump should be BEATING that drum bigly.
He should have three or four back to back "Come to Daddy" speeches addressed to the Millenials. They are not yet so cynical that they can not be convinced to switch from Sanders's Ben and Jerry communism to red blooded conservatism.
Heck how many people here mention that they used to be liberals?
The fields are white and ready to be harvested as the Good Book says.
Mr. Trump or one of his peeps, are you reading this?
Thanks for this. I would say the college environment where my daughter goes (St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia) is an echo chamber of the position taken by your son the Texas A & M grad.
At least they hate Hillary so those who are not as astute as your community college daughter (congratulate her for me) are not voting Hillary en masse.
so their fix is, screw things up even more
Never said it was for the whole US. It’s an opinion and with other experiences and folks I’ve talked to. My belief is that the Dems and Hillary cannot count on many of the young voters this time around. Sure there are bastions of liberal infested colleges like the Ivy League and Cal Berkley that will majority vote for Clinton. But in other mainstream colleges I don’t think they have the monopoly they once had.
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