11-15-2018, 11:13 PM
It looks as if the Millennial generation has begun to vote as it never has before. Figuring that this signals a change in behavior and no temporary blip, this bodes ill for any political tendencies that turn them off. They have always been to the Left of other generations except perhaps the GI Generation at any time, and I do not expect this to change quickly. The current Republican Party is severely out of touch with them, and this will get worse until it changes its agenda. The Religious Right and Tea Party factions of the GOP switched quickly to Trump, and it is unlikely to switch back to anything more pleasing to the Millennial Generation.
The Howe and Strauss theory has expected the Millennial generation to be extremely rational, secular, cohesive, and egalitarian, and the Millennial generation has shown such. Donald Trump is the antithesis of such. If the rest of America is nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, then the Millennial generation can be expected to force electoral politics away from the current manifestation of conservatism.
The Howe and Strauss theory has expected the Millennial generation to be extremely rational, secular, cohesive, and egalitarian, and the Millennial generation has shown such. Donald Trump is the antithesis of such. If the rest of America is nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, then the Millennial generation can be expected to force electoral politics away from the current manifestation of conservatism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.