Posted on 02/13/2019 1:21:37 PM PST by Red Badger
And isn’t it mandatory in OK that all citizens attend the rattlesnake festival?
My Millenial son and his friends. First hand experience.
Many of them voted for Trump after their original Obama infatuations.
And just watch those Campus Reform interview videos. This feels like a reincarnation of my youth, when my 4 years in college under Carter made me a Republican for life after being well Left in college.
Not these days. This younger generation is more fond of noodling. Catfish are not poisonous.
Many may be military...................
Like gypsies, tramps and thieves, locusts and ‘migrants’......................
Sounds perfect! Why do you want to sell?........................
I think part of the problem is that the millenials are a lost generation. Wages have been stagnant (or dropped) since at least 2000. Many millenials got out of college and never got an actual career job, instead getting stuck in retail and other low-tier, dead-end jobs. This is true even for millenials who didn't major in underwater basketweaving and xir/xer/xyr genderfluid studies. To make things worse, they waste their money on stuff that doesn't last, like travel and food.
Your entire future career wages are tied to what you make when you initially inter the a profession (if you get in at all, nowadays). Millenials were, and will be, way behind the curve because of their failure to start well.
GenX also had this problem but it wasn't as severe, and GenX also was able to buy houses before they became impossible to afford - of course a lot of GenX bought houses they couldn't afford, using idiot loans, and then had a bankruptcy and foreclosure. GenX is more self-reliant and able to change courses, and also more cynical about believing that the government would ever help us or be there for us in retirement. So, we saw that we wouldn't be getting anything from the government and decided to do what we could to provide for ourselves. Millenials "nevertheless persist" in their delusion that the government can give them what they want.
Boomers, of course, and then GenX and Millenials themselves following suit, are the ones who screwed Millenials out of any wage increases. I have sat in conferences with bigwigs as they explain why they are lowering the starting wages, yet again, for new employees, "because we can." In the 1990's starting wage with a Bachelor's was about $30,000 even if you had majored in something dumb. Full health benefits. College was still affordable. 20 years later Millenials were graduating with a Bachelor's (the educational quality is much poorer, though, even with a solid major), and being lucky to make $25,000. No benefits. Massive student loans.
The financial situation of the Millenials is something that all of us are going to have to somehow deal with. I don't see it going away. So far the only solution they have come up with is to use the government's power to steal money away from anyone who has any. This will result in the destruction of the middle class. I think it's already well underway. I don't really see an answer for this lost generation. They're dumb, poor, lack financial sense, lack work ethic, and lack morals. They're greedy, always with an eye on what other people have. How do you fix all of that?
Its a sudden (past 6 months or so) onslaught and there is no military base nearby.
Look on the bright side: They may be CONSERVATIVE REFUGEES!....................
I hope so but evidence is inconclusive so far.
I am bringing them:
As a lifelong conservative, I have never voted Democrat, I was mocked (and even assaulted) from fourth grade and on for being one, I am an ordained minister, I have never been drunk, I have never used drugs.
I have fought the lonely good fight, and I am worn out from it.
I assert that I am more genuinely conservative than 90% of Texas - and 100% of Austin.
Not by me.
California had many staunch conservatives like me. How do you suppose Nixon and Reagan got elected?
Thank (Blame) Ronald Reagan and his abominable Amnesty.
There is a mental disconnect between their voting habits and their living environment.
They don’t see a connection.............................
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I read an LA TIMES column on this issue...A Dem activist was interviewed. She moved to Nevada because of lower cost of living...Did she become a Republican? No...In Nevada, she works for some pro-abortion group...
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