Not trying to be a pick me ass millennial but holy shit the millennial generation has been a fucking appalling disappointment. So many terrified articles written by boomers when we were coming up in our early 20s about how much things were gonna get shaken up. Then seeing 95% of my cohort become clueless tepid shitlibs at absolute best who are constitutionally incapable of imagining even a slightly better world.
Anyway the idea that politics would naturally drift left with generational change was brutally murdered by first millennial presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his unbelievably crackertacular high high hopes dances.
The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don't listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.
TBF Buttigieg was never popular with Millennials, he’s a vision of what the old farts in charge of the DNC wish Millennials were.
That being said, I do think you’re right that our generation suffers from endemic tepidness and hedge betting. Like historically the trope was generations get wealthier as they get older and thus more defensive of the status quo, but we’re buried under too much debt and CoL for that.
I think it stems from being the first standardized testing generation. It got so beaten into us that there’s four options here, fill in the right bubble or kiss your future goodbye. So there’s a combination of fear but also an inability to cope with a world that’s not a multiple choice test so it’s a lot of waffling because god help us if we get the answer wrong.
That’s what I think too. As millennials age theres still not that much to look forward to in terms of material help. For example millennials actually have a good chance of owning a house once their parents die, but how many of them are just going to sell their house so they can pay off their loans? They’re still going to be worse off and that’s going to have an effect on their future politics.
is a millennial? Something about him always made me think he was Gen X or something. Probably on the cusp if I'd guess.
The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don't listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.
Gotta disagree with this. The younger people should take some advice from those elders that are able to perceive the mistakes they made in their own time. Unfortunately, there seem to be few of those people among the millennial left.
Not trying to be a pick me ass millennial but holy shit the millennial generation has been a fucking appalling disappointment. So many terrified articles written by boomers when we were coming up in our early 20s about how much things were gonna get shaken up. Then seeing 95% of my cohort become clueless tepid shitlibs at absolute best who are constitutionally incapable of imagining even a slightly better world.
Anyway the idea that politics would naturally drift left with generational change was brutally murdered by first millennial presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his unbelievably crackertacular high high hopes dances.
The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don't listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.
TBF Buttigieg was never popular with Millennials, he’s a vision of what the old farts in charge of the DNC wish Millennials were.
That being said, I do think you’re right that our generation suffers from endemic tepidness and hedge betting. Like historically the trope was generations get wealthier as they get older and thus more defensive of the status quo, but we’re buried under too much debt and CoL for that.
I think it stems from being the first standardized testing generation. It got so beaten into us that there’s four options here, fill in the right bubble or kiss your future goodbye. So there’s a combination of fear but also an inability to cope with a world that’s not a multiple choice test so it’s a lot of waffling because god help us if we get the answer wrong.
somebody on here called him Eddie Haskell
Though I am too disappointed by my cohort, millenials still have a relative overall left-slant, so a drift to the left absolutely isn't ruled out yet.
That’s what I think too. As millennials age theres still not that much to look forward to in terms of material help. For example millennials actually have a good chance of owning a house once their parents die, but how many of them are just going to sell their house so they can pay off their loans? They’re still going to be worse off and that’s going to have an effect on their future politics.
Gotta disagree with this. The younger people should take some advice from those elders that are able to perceive the mistakes they made in their own time. Unfortunately, there seem to be few of those people among the millennial left.