How 'bout dem average school grades of millennials compared to the rest of world? Oh yeah, last place because they are too busy banging their teachers.
Oh please, food stamps aren't the only kind of 'dole.' The mortgage write-off on your taxes is welfare. The food subsidies keeping food prices low is welfare. Gas is cheaper here than much of the world in part because of subsidies aka welfare. Everyone is a "taker." Virtually everyone is a "maker." The whole "liberals just want free stuff" meme is so absurd and delusional.''Because a lot more of them are on the dole.
That is interesting. I wonder if that is a real measure of how much their care about the environment relative to each other, though. I don't consider myself "a feminist" per se but I have much, much more feminist views than the average of older generations than me - I just don't think the term communicates very much. I'd bet if you looked at environment-friendly actions (or just actions that people think are 'green,' whether or not they are) you might see a different story, regardless of how people identify explicitly.
I like how all the conservative responses are "they are secret future conservatives anyway" or "they have been evilly tricked". There's never a consideration that they might just actually be genuinely more liberal for non-nefarious reasons.
Oh please, food stamps aren't the only kind of 'dole.' The mortgage write-off on your taxes is welfare. The food subsidies keeping food prices low is welfare. Gas is cheaper here than much of the world in part because of subsidies aka welfare. Everyone is a "taker." Virtually everyone is a "maker." The whole "liberals just want free stuff" meme is so absurd and delusional.''
That is interesting. I wonder if that is a real measure of how much their care about the environment relative to each other, though. I don't consider myself "a feminist" per se but I have much, much more feminist views than the average of older generations than me - I just don't think the term communicates very much. I'd bet if you looked at environment-friendly actions (or just actions that people think are 'green,' whether or not they are) you might see a different story.
LOL. It's funny how only unokitty has even acknowledged the actual survey. Most of the usual suspects are just babbling the usual nonsense and spin about what they imagine, rather than anything to do with the actual information.
In other words, a typical P&N thread.
Marketing. The democrats are marketing geniuses. Forget all the doom and gloom, the government offers themselves to you. Vote democrat and get your own teat!
Because a lot more of them are on the dole.
The conservatives could be marketing geniuses too. Heck young conservative techies are the ones who BUILT services like Google, Twitter, etc. Young conservative techies are cranking out smartphone apps and designing new devices the next generation will use. Conservatives could dominate new ways of connecting to the younger audience if they could tap into this techie vein.
The problem is that thanks to the "moral majority" the conservative brand is tied too much to the religious right, which comes across as basically hate mongering to this younger techie audience. So this group which could modernize the conservative message stays apolitical or libertarian, and the Republican "social media" strategy is some 50 year old white guy tweeting the same stupid party lines to other 50 somethings that feel modern because they have twitter on their iPhones while the next generation is editing Obama photos in Snapchat.
Another thought from Winston Churchill "Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart.
Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."
As for the living arrangements... well, when the pension system is wrecked and more people who would be eligible for retirement are working and more people in their 30's 40's and 50's are taking any job they can get."Conservative by the time you're 35"
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"
Are these facts undisputed? Am I that off base with the rest of my generation?
Perhaps there's been some breakdown elsewhere in our trickle down economy necessitating that, or at least making it more desirable than the alternatives.
Just a thought. Don't stay in the shallow end of the pool forever.
Oh please, food stamps aren't the only kind of 'dole.' The mortgage write-off on your taxes is welfare. The food subsidies keeping food prices low is welfare. Gas is cheaper here than much of the world in part because of subsidies aka welfare. Everyone is a "taker." Virtually everyone is a "maker." The whole "liberals just want free stuff" meme is so absurd and delusional.''
and a boot-load of false equivalence and justification for system abuse.
On what basis do you assert that young techie geniuses are "conservative"?
So far as the actual topic, I'd say that millennials are more liberal because of the information age. We have more access to information with more sources for that information than in our entire history. And historically, the more educated you are with the more access to information that you have, the more liberal you are. You have to be ignorant to be conservative.
Ron Paul has made waves online because he has tapped into this talent previously. The reason is his stance on issues connects with tech talent that is not enamored by the democratic party.
Are these facts undisputed? Am I that off base with the rest of my generation?
and also because he preaches libertarian ideas
Sure, the information age serves a great purpose, but it isn't the holy grail of society and must be handled responsibly.
Which have been proven to be about the only conservative ideals popular with millennials.
Which have been proven to be about the only conservative ideals popular with millennials.