It’s a Millennial World Now — Twelve Things to Know

Inside Source ^ | August 14, 2016 | Paul Taylor

[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.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This guy misses or ignores that millennials for the most part are the brainwashed product of our hijacked public school system run by progressives and teaching these kid to love socialism and lean on the government to give them what they need. Its a hive mentality and we are never going to get them back.

[yoe]

Here is the poster girl for all young Americans....

her parents know how hard work makes for success.....Millennials will be lost for years to come.....family values denied them will be replaced in the work place with the brighter, harder working none- Millennials....

[WRhine]

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.

Excellent point. That's exactly it.

[Mears]

“Boomers were horrible to Vietnam Vets when they came back.”

---

And most of the Vietnam vets were Boomers.

.

[napscoordinator]

Yep and their counterparts sucked badly. Horrible generation.

[Albion Wilde]

...Or the most downwardly mobile, debt-ridden, unlaunched, unmarried, unchurched, and apolitical.

I'll go with door number three. But that is not their fault. It's the fault of several generations of Democrats who came before them and shut God out and sold the county out.

[headstamp 2]

You’re an Xer

[Right_Wing_Madman]

...Or the most downwardly mobile, debt-ridden, unlaunched, unmarried, unchurched, and apolitical.

Dude, my gender studies degree is like, totally worthless.

[Wallace T.]

Millennials have not been around long enough to mess things up. Baby boomers have. But don't forget that the Boomers' parents, the G.I. generation, brought us the Great Society, the defeatist strategy in Vietnam, large scale deficit spending, the "civil rights" revolution, and the sexual revolution. In turn, the G.I. generation's parents, the lost, or World War I generation, gave us the New Deal, "progressive" education, and the lawlessness of Prohibition. Their predecessors, the post Civil War generation, gave us the Progressive movement, which imposed the income tax, central banking, and widespread Federal and state regulation of commerce.

Bishop Fulton Sheen once observed that children complaining about the failure of their parents is a cycle that ultimately ends with Adam and Eve.

[grey_whiskers]

Generation P.

[a fool in paradise]

If it's a millennial world why are both presidential candidates still from the baby boom generation?

Gen-Xers were on the ballot for the first time.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8

[Midnitethecat]

A large majority of Viet Man vets were Boomers.

[napscoordinator]

As I said to the last person who said the same thing, A small percentage of Boomers went to Vietnam or even joined the military (lots of cowards). However, the ones who dodge the Vietnam bullet were assholes to those who returned from that war. Clear?

[napscoordinator]

I don’t think the GI Generation did much damage at all compared to the Baby Boomrs. Ok so they gave us Social Security....big deal. The Boomers have spent 18 trillion dollars in debt. You know the Boomers are the worst in history. You know it.

[Mears]

Thanks for leaving out my generation from your list.

Makes me feel so wanted./s

.

[dp0622]

You’re right! I looked it up.

I could have sworn this article said 1965 and on.

Youngest age for millennials would 40, as defined by several banks.

The rest use 1980 on. :)

[MoochPooch]

I worry about their amorality & lack of loyalty to anything. Who is going to run these traditional institutions (colleges, banks, governments, etc.)? I really fear for the future.

[mom of young patriots]

It’s really true. I have seen so many contemptible parenting styles. It is no wonder the kids are not successful. I could name dozens of families in our school alone who are repeating the mistakes of their parents before them, with even worse consequences given the downward moral spiral this country is in.

I will say, though, that having grown up in a dysfunctional, fractured family myself, the parents are to blame only until the grown child realizes what is wrong. At that point, if they don’t start making the changes necessary to set themselves on the right path, then the blame rests solely on them. Your destiny is in your own hands and the past, in spite of all its scars, should never be used as an excuse.

[tumblindice]

Generational navel gazing and airing of grievances?