Posted on 08/15/2016 6:19:27 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Choose your truism. Millennials are the most diverse, tolerant, connected, educated, and idealistic generation ever. Or the most narcissistic, lazy, entitled, coddled, distrustful and disconnected.
Or the most downwardly mobile, debt-ridden, unlaunched, unmarried, unchurched, and apolitical. Or a great bunch of kids who play nicely with others, love their parents, respect their elders, want to save the planet, and can’t catch a break. Each of these cliches — and all their wondrous Jekyll-and-Hyde contradictions — have been around for a quite a while. So have millennials themselves. They’re not kids anymore; the oldest are 35.
Since the turn of the millennium, when they began what’s turned out to be a slow walk toward adulthood, they’ve been a big, shiny object of media hyperventilation, what with their tattos, participation trophies, backward baseball caps, online mating rituals and selfies, selfies, selfies.
This year’s presidential campaign finds them in their familiar perch, right in the middle of the Zeitgeist. After going big for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, they’re the most intriguing swing voters (or non-voters) of the fall campaign. At 77 million strong, they’re now the largest generation in the electorate, workforce and population, a distinction they’ll keep for decades.
What kind of citizens will they be? Employees? Spouses? Parents? What kind of America will they build?
Here are 12 observations about what makes millennials tick, based on attitudinal surveys, voting data, and economic and demographic trend analysis, followed by a closing thought about what the generations can learn from one another.
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This is a joke right?
Lazy. Period.
Yes, America has become a joke.
There’s only a few worth saving.
Shamefully, my generation (56) generally sucked as parents.
Too many put themselves ahead of being a parent.
Spoiling them rotten to make up for time not spent with them only makes them worse.
And my generation (40 somethings) are even worse parents. The coming wave of adult Millennials and Zs will be worse.
My kids will hopefully roll right to the top of the heap and be able to keep me in the lifestyle I would prefer to become accustomed to.
They are for the most part poorly educated....have very narrow views and know little or nothing about America, or any place else for that matter. I could go on but what’s the point.
As reflected in grammatical habits.
The only one I STRONGLY disagree with is “tolerant.” The rest is just old farts complaining about young whippersnappers.
Under the assumption that past equals future.
The political ruling class want an intellectually challenged populace rife with 3rd world immigrants they can always manipulate. Nothing will change in America until their political puppets like Hitllery are banished from office. And The outlook on this happening is not encouraging for reasons mentioned above.
They’re narcissists.
90% of them give the rest a bad reputation.
Complain all you want.
But as bad as my generation can get, we didn’t spring up out of a vacuum.
Who was it who raised us to feel instead of think? Who was it who pawned us off on babysitters who pawned us off on TV instead of raising us? Who was it who let us be raised by government schools?
There are many people in my generation who I just want to stomp a mudhole in. But as the song goes:
Who do you blame when your kid is a brat
Pampered and spoiled like a siamese cat
Blaming the kids is a lie and a shame
You know exactly who’s to blame
The mother and the father
Summary:
collectivists
indebted for indoctrination, graduating into a decade long Great Recession caused by Democratic policies and debt blamed on conservatives
less materialistic and have lower expectations for the future
“I’m not a racist, that’s evil!”
Unmarried and have fewer children than replacement level, but still have children because marriage is a greater capstone than the baby you want
When you’ve been taught not how to think but what to think and the “moral” way to feel on various topics, you’ve stamped out inquiry and thought.
When the result of questioning official viewpoints is screeching and tantruming, you kill reason and debate, too.
My daughter’s classmates were trying to puzzle out a compare and contrast of Berlin Wall versus proposed wall on Mexican border. All they could see was “wall is bad” and “locations are different”.
I nearly yelled at them, “Berlin wall was built to keep people in who wanted out, while a wall on the US border is to keep people out that wanted in.” They didn’t understand the history enough to make that connection.
I also had a long discussion on how we can’t be as bad as teachers have said when we’re having to keep people out who risk lives to come in. Don’t know if any of it stuck.
I’m a millennial.
Mostly just been called crazy in my life.
Used to bang my head really hard against the wall in the back seat in school.
No one ever said anything :)
But it explains a lot now :)
Nope. I am an Xer.
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