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!
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.
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....
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.
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?
so their fix is, screw things up even more
I disagree. Some popular movie celebrity, like Samuel L. Jackson, will just get on social media with some f-bomb dropping small children, and they’ll be fired up.
That, or someone WILL vote “for” them.
They are pissed that a card carrying communist was cheated out of the nomination by a subversive communist ARCHCRIMINAL.
OK....
Time to start talking DISENFRANCHISEMENT.
Chavez, Castro, and Maduro are in power due to UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE =DEMOCRACY.
I am an actual millennial, and I will give you my first hand account of what is going on in my polititcs sphere:
It is true that the third party is being skyrocketed into popularity. But I have actually met more non-voters than third party voters. And I still see more republican/democrat voters than anyone considering to vote third party. But the overwhelming majority just hates Trump. If you want to see how they feel, just look on twitter. Mostly things like “I hate Trump because he’s sexist” or “I hate Trump because he hates immigrants.” And it is hard to try and speak some logic because all your fellow classmates will come after you. So I don’t know if people get some common sense as the age or what, the baby boomers didn’t, but something has really gotta change, and soon I hope. Cause trying to keep myself from totally roasting everybody my age with some actual facts is killing me on the inside, hence this rant.