The pulse is taken of the millenial generation

[MillCreek]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0307/Portrait-of-Millennials-Call-them-Generation-Unaffiliated

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/millennials-skipping-church-marriage-political-affilliations-study-finds/

Interesting on the percentage identifying themselves as independent.

[Sergeant Bob]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0307/Portrait-of-Millennials-Call-them-Generation-Unaffiliated

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/millennials-skipping-church-marriage-political-affilliations-study-finds/

Interesting on the percentage identifying themselves as independent.

"Independents" who will likely vote for Progressives.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

"Independents" who will likely vote for Progressives.

^^^^  they are being disingenuous at best

[drewtam]

Yeah, disappointed in the direction of my generation. The most favorable spin one can take this is that Millenials are constantly indoctrinated with left thought and so have that tendency, but somehow know it doesn't work or is corrupted so they won't join either party.

Otherwise, find ways to enjoy the decline.

[MechAg94]

When was the last time a Republican or Conservative leader unapologetically talked about free market economics and either got significant air time or survived the media assault?  It has nearly been decades.  Of course, I doubt most of that generation actually pay attention to news beyond something like the Daily Show. 

I wonder where Ron Paul stands in the eyes of that generation.  He is probably one of the only prominent figures who has consistently talked a pro-freedom message.  He actually appears on the Daily Show from time to time. 

[RevDisk]

Of course, I doubt most of that generation actually pay attention to news beyond something like the Daily Show.

Of course, I doubt most of the previous generation cared about anything except socialism and spending money worse than drunken sailors. There's more concrete evidence to my sweeping generalization than your's.  



There's a much more obvious explanation. Republicans tend to be more uh... stodgy on social issues. Gays, moral stuff, women's rights, etc. Then there's the whole "hypocrite" issue. That IS really hyped by Daily Show, because it makes for great TV. It's easy to catch a politician saying one thing, and then doing another. It's not hard to find a true diehard GOP Republican that makes some morality or fiscal responsibility speech, and then catch him with a male hooker, solicitation a homosexual encounter in a public restroom, getting caught snorting blow/pills, or whatnot.

Dems just commit to wanting to blow money. Hard to claim a politician is being a hypocrite there. The rest are a basket of more niche concerns. Of course, the best hypocrit "sting" done by the Daily Show was on a union, which are little more than money laundering operations for the DNC.

[Tallpine]

Not much difference between the D and R parties except for the things they want to ban 

[charby]

Not much difference between the D and R parties except for the things they want to ban 

No what they want to control.

[MechAg94]

Of course, I doubt most of the previous generation cared about anything except socialism and spending money worse than drunken sailors. There's more concrete evidence to my sweeping generalization than your's.  



There's a much more obvious explanation. Republicans tend to be more uh... stodgy on social issues. Gays, moral stuff, women's rights, etc. Then there's the whole "hypocrite" issue. That IS really hyped by Daily Show, because it makes for great TV. It's easy to catch a politician saying one thing, and then doing another. It's not hard to find a true diehard GOP Republican that makes some morality or fiscal responsibility speech, and then catch him with a male hooker, solicitation a homosexual encounter in a public restroom, getting caught snorting blow/pills, or whatnot.

Dems just commit to wanting to blow money. Hard to claim a politician is being a hypocrite there. The rest are a basket of more niche concerns. Of course, the best hypocrit "sting" done by the Daily Show was on a union, which are little more than money laundering operations for the DNC.

That is sort of where I should have been going.  The Republican Party for the last 10 years or more has been downplaying free markets and such and emphasizing the Social Issue crap.  The Democrats have sort of jumped on that and carried the Republican social message to the extreme and used it to scare people.  The problem is the Republicans are too much the cowards to stand on conviction and I think too many of them don't really believe in free markets. 

There are just as many hypocrits ont he Democrat side, but democrat voters don't care and their support groups almost embrace dishonesty.  Republicans could attack on that more often, but most of them are too cowardly to do so.

[Balog]

Neither party has been for anything resembling small government since long before I was born. They talk up social issues because it's the only difference between them.

[Perd Hapley]

That is sort of where I should have been going.  The Republican Party for the last 10 years or more has been downplaying free markets and such and emphasizing the Social Issue crap. 

  The Republican Party talks about whatever the Left wants them to talk about. The Left picks the issues for the Republicans to be on the defensive against. That's American Civics 101.

[æg151337]

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21578666-britains-youth-are-not-just-more-liberal-their-elders-they-are-also-more-liberal-any

I was actually looking this up the other night when i discovered that my "generation" actually has a label.

those aged 18 to 24 are also more likely than older people to consider social problems the responsibility of individuals rather than government. They are deficit hawks (see second chart). They care about the environment, but are also keen on commerce: more supportive of the privatisation of utilities, more likely to reject government attempts to ban branding on cigarette packets and more likely to agree that Tesco, Britain’s supermarket giant, “has only become so large by offering customers what they want”.

More than two-thirds of people born before 1939 consider the welfare state “one of Britain’s proudest achievements”. Less than one-third of those born after 1979 say the same. According to the BSA, members of Generation Y are not just half as likely as older people to consider it the state’s responsibility to cover the costs of residential care in old age. They are also more likely to take such a hard-hearted view than were members of the famously jaded Generation X (born between 1966 and 1979) at the same stage of life.

Does it stop after we get to generation Z? is that when the zombie apocalypse actually wipes us all out?