Millenial Turnover

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-12-2018, 11:41 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(10-09-2018, 10:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-07-2018, 10:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has one of the better articles on how the Millennials might look at things differently politically.

Unfortunately, they seem more than a little distracted.  It's as if they live in a bubble that floats through the world of not-them.  They don't feel any real attachment to that world, or any responsibility for it.  They are angry about their lives; they see themselves as pawns in a game they don't play.  Many are just accepting of their fate.  It's sad, to be frank about it.  If I have to use a single term, it's lethargic.  I'm not sure what breaks that pattern.

That's interesting--young Gen Xers were described in just such a way back in the day, but the word we were summed up with was "apathetic," while here you use a word that implies that Millennials are just being lazy. 

I don't think the millennials are as desperate as the GIs were.  The GIs came of age dealing with the Great Depression.  Members would join an alphabet soup agency and send most of their salary home.  Millennials will live with their parents for a few extra years until college debts are paid off.  In both cases we saw too great a division of wealth, family countering government failure, and economic stress, but the stress today speaks of a political solution for which there is no agreement yet for which solution.

With GIs, a breakdown of the democratic - capitalist system could be seen, with the answer being a Marxist autocratic revolution.  With millennials the see saw might be flipped in four of eight years, but there is little talk of revolutions or autocratic government being being necessary or even desirable.  They lost the Cold War, after all.

(10-12-2018, 11:41 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Young people can't and shouldn't be expected to save the world.  They're still struggling to find their own footing in it, and they're also trying to enjoy their youth while they have it.  Millennials certainly have the potential, due to their numbers, to become a powerful force in shaping the future. 

 

Well, they are up to date with social media and know how to organize.  That is what I liked most of the above article that opened this thread.  They have also seen how the rich have bought government.  I am hopeful that they will fight against both big government and big capitol as they come into power.  

And I hope they do save the world.  The boomers and xers sure didn't.  Somebody has to do it.

(10-12-2018, 11:41 PM)gabrielle Wrote: But I don't think generations are as uniform in their beliefs and outlooks as some of you seem to think.  A lot depends on the prevailing winds of the times, and that involves multiple generations.

Correct.  This is a web site dedicated to just that uniform a theory.  We sometimes get carried away with it.