05-25-2021, 02:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2021, 02:50 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-24-2021, 02:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-24-2021, 01:01 AM)X Marks the Spot Wrote: This is just wrong. On 9/11, police officers, along with firefighters, became heroes when they saved people's lives on that tragic day. Because of this event, Millennials became pro-police; they became very patriotic; and they became very pro-Bush. They rallied around the president and supported his wars. In fact, Millennials turning out to vote was a big reason Bush won re-election in 2004.
Millennials also volunteered to fight in those wars, to the point that we never needed a draft. That sure didn't happen with the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
I wonder if Millennials saw the Afghanistan and Iraq wars more in terms of good versus evil - with us as "good", of course - than did older generations.
The turnout of young millennials was massive in 2004 and 2008, and they voted for the anti-war candidate. By 2008 their numbers were great enough to get their guy elected.
"Young voters preferred Obama over John McCain by a greater than 2:1 margin (66% vs. 32%). This is well above the margin given by young voters to any presidential candidate for at least three decades, if not at any time in U.S. history." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-offic...s_b_144357
https://demmelearning.com/obama-millenni...-election/
It depends to some extent on which part of the Millennial Generation we talk about. Young white men are pro-war by a small margin, it seems, if their support for Trump (over Biden) by a small margin is any indication. Those young white men in the South and rural areas are more-likely to be among those who see the "war on terror" wars as good versus evil, and more likely to volunteer. The armed forces are mainly staffed by young people, so of course in the 2000s they were Millennials. In other places, and in other demographics besides white men, young people are more likely to see the wars as an enormous drain on their future, and as an injustice they don't support.
