Barack Obama may be the Republicans' best friend when it comes to educating 18-33-year olds of the Millennial Generation about the downside of voting for the Democrats’ economic policies. According to a report from the Pew Research Center for Social and Demographic Trends, the 73.7 million Millennials are“unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry— and optimistic about the future.”
This growing rejection of the Democrat Party will undoubtedly have consequences in the coming mid-term and presidential elections.
Millennials in 2008 were all about the Democratic Party, with only 38% identifying themselves as political independents. Millennials associated Republicans with “a wave of disappointments and embarrassments: Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, congressional corruption scandals, the mortgage crisis.” Millennials were extraordinarily motivated to turn out and vote in 2008 and even more motivated in 2012.
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What do we have to celebrate as a people? Better standard of living? Nope. More jobs? Nope. Better government? Nope.
ReplyDeleteThe hope and change that was promised by our sitting president was baloney, and it's sad that a few trinkets and empty words have taken us to a bad place that will take us a decade to dig out of, if we're incredibly lucky.
Democrats are losing everyone who decides to face the truth.
ReplyDeleteThat's because us millennials are growing up.
ReplyDeleteOf course we still can't stand the Tea Party platform, even if we can sympathize with their less-extreme beliefs in principle. And we want legalization and gay marriage (which should be a republican-supported viewpoint, in theory).