Posted on 07/27/2016 11:55:35 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
If a recent gathering in a Merced park is any sign, playing “Pokémon Go” and lamenting over the presidential candidate options for the November election are part of the life of a millennial.
And that matters because millennials, which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1981 and 1998, hold a particularly powerful deck of cards this election. Many of them say they are exasperated with their options for president in 2016.
Aaron Lequia of Merced, who plays the mobile game in local parks, said he’s struggling with how to cast his vote in November. Ever since he first heard Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speak, he was sold.
“I’ve been a Bernie supporter for like 10 years,” the 31-year-old said.
Wearing a black flat cap and sunglasses atop his red-bearded face, the registered Democrat said he’d be “hard pressed” to ever vote Republican. But neither is he excited about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate.
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I don’t call them “milleniels” any more. They are thee Snowflakes or the Snowflake Generation.
Moronials. What don’t they know?
Good. Then stay home idiots. You $@^$&#^$&#* things up GOOD in 2008 and 2012!!!
Millenials with jobs (i.e. They pay taxes) actually prefer Trump
Not many. They don't think what they say matters, they know they're ignorant about a lot of stuff, they doubt anything would change, and, like, well...
millennials are equating Trump’s verbal style in debates with Clinton’s criminal acts as Secretary of State.
Apparently, calling someone short is just as bad as a sitting government official conspiring with a foreign enemy to take bribes.
Millennials cannot be getting correctly surveyed. No barely logical thinks those are similar.
Their vote still counnnts as much as ours. It is good that they will stay home.
No way hillary can win without the 35 and unders.
After reading this article, perhaps the voting age ought to be raised to 50. They all sound like victims of arrested development.
“Ask not what your country can do for you ... ask what you can do for your country.” - It’s obvious they don’t teach JFK in school.
Young people don’t vote. Not a new thing.
As far as their not being inclined to vote: if the majority of them are “Bernbros,” I doubt they’ll vote for Trump anyway. Which is why I wonder how much he’ll really go out of his way to win them over.
Ultimately this will hurt Hillary, since the Democratic party has slid further to the left and she can’t relate to the younger people.
I think the Millennials are a generation that will take much longer in paying their dues in society. However, they seem to believe that their dues were pre-paid just by having been born.
MTV has been Rocking the Vote since 1984, with little to show for it.
Better they stay home. If they do it is a prayer answered.
“Far too many millenials are communists, thanks to the Long March through the institutions.”
I wouldn’t go that far :-). They’re graduating high school / college and not finding any opportunity. The socialism babble they’ve been subjected to makes sense to them since they’re entering a world without opportunity and think capitalism is to blame. Here’s the “problem” though ... if Trump wins and delivers, almost 30 years worth of sociological engineering gets wiped out in a nanosecond.
Overall, people want to work. They want to succeed. They want freedom. If they start to find meaningful employment and get paid something resembling well for that work (that doesn’t require obscene FedGov interference), they’ll RUN at speeds that boggle the imagination from the Democratic party.
I suspect Democrats are freaking out for the reasons stated above. The revolution they started in the late 1960s will all be for naught if Trump wins and delivers on his campaign promises. They went all-in with Obama and didn’t get the total change they desired. They got a lot, but nothing permanent. Most of these Millennials have *never* experienced a *good* economy let alone a great one. If they get a taste of a *good* USA economy, the 1960s era Dems are done for.
Given the fact that Democratic party leadership is built around these late 60s Communist relics, the Democratic label going to take a hit for a few years after the POTUS election should Trump win & deliver. The younger ones will certainly bring it back, but they’re not the “true believers” that the older generation was. If Trump can do what we all think he can do, the liberal left is going to take some massive hits over the next 4 years and they know it.
I have a Millenial daughter. She is not particularly political. She took an online poll that was supposed to tell her who she should vote for based on her beliefs.
The result of the poll came back Trump. She was initially horrified, as all of the media messaging aimed at people her age is screaming that Trump and all of his supporters are RACISTS!
(I should mention her best friend is a black female welder)
I told her that “the media is saying that because Trump has said he wants to keep Muslims from immigrating to the country until we can find a way to screen for terrorists.”
“Oh,” she answered. “Well, I AGREE with that!”
I think she will have no problem voting for Trump after that. However I’m unsure how many of her friends will be able to pull themselves over that RACIST hump. That’s big with Millenials because they grew up with friends of many races (and multiracial friends).
Most of her friends were huge Bernie fans, and now seem so disgusted they will likely stay home. Interestingly the girls seem to “get it” that Hillary enabled her husband to sexually abuse women and then led the intimidation and the cover-up.
They’ll vote for the Dawg because she’ll buy them off by paying their student loans. And even if they didn’t, which is nigh impossible considering this is the most self-centered and entitled generation yet, Diebold voting machines will deliver the proper vote regardless.
Pajama boy will look like Heman in comparison to the boys grown up under the man-hating Dawg.
With the length of the current election cycles, it just seems like 10 years to the short attention span crowd.
Sorry, I don’t have time to play Pokemon GO. I wish my generation would grow up, and elect Trump. If Hillary gets elected, then we’ll be able to play Pokemon GO, since the $15/hr wage will give us lots of freetime...
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