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Millennials’ Political Views

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…don’t make any sense:

Young people support big government, unless it costs any more money. They’re for smaller government, unless budget cuts scratch a program they’ve heard of. They’d like Washington to fix everything, just so long as it doesn’t run anything.

Hardly surprising, considering that they were “educated” in a government-school system, and then went to colleges infested with mindless leftist professors. And I hate that the pollsters say they’re more “liberal” than older people. No, they’re more leftist.

12 thoughts on “Millennials’ Political Views”

  1. That sounds American, not just Millennial. I know the “Greatest” Generation wanted all the entitlements they thought they deserved. So do the Silents and the Boomers.

    2. “But, it’s hardly news that young people start out more liberal.”

      Only when you force them to spend the first twenty years of their lives being told what to do by raving lefties. The SJW takeover of the school system had only just begun when I was at school, and most of our teachers were ex-military. Didn’t get many liberals coming out of our school back then.

      1. It’s not a new thing, though:

        “”A young man who isn’t a socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn’t got a head.” – David Lloyd George, 1863-1945

        1. No, socialist propaganda has been around for a long time. But, if what he said was actually true, the left wouldn’t have had to take over the government schools to indoctrinate kids with their insane ideas.

          1. The indoctrination is a bad thing, but kids are more resilient than I think you give them credit for. They especially tend to reject philosophies that are seen to fail. And, since every philosophy fails when taken to its extreme, history tends to repeat in cycles.

            I think it was Balzac who said (paraphrasing from memory, and different language, of course), “Every generation makes peace with its grandparents, and rejects the previous one.” you can never eliminate the cycle. But, you can help moderate the inevitable reactions to keep the oscillations stable, so that they don’t wisk us into a saturation mode where Nazis and Communists take charge.

            I am being continuously subjected to deja vu over the current transition from the Obama to the Trump years. There are so many parallels to the Carter to Reagan transition era that I feel like I am watching a rerun. As it ever was, so shall it always be. Jai guru deva.

  4. If you look at large groups of people, how many have views that make sense? In other words, what makes this survey unusual?

    It’s very common for groups to want their public funding while simultaneously not wanting funding for someone else. That’s what we see here as well.

    Further, you will never get consistency of political beliefs in a large group that is grouped by any reason other than political beliefs. Nor will you get consistency in a group that hasn’t thought long and hard about such things.

    1. That’s what we see here as well.

      You mean like how we argue that NASA should get more money from the federal budget or that commercial cargo and crew should get more money than SLS?

      I couldn’t tell if you meant here as in the survey or here as in the comments =p

  5. Often, the specific questions are not directly ‘opposing’. Or, questions don’t stipulate some key factor. Then add typical reporter.

    The question: “Are you in favor of eliminating public schools entirely?” is framed completely differently from “Would you be opposed to taking all federal education funds and sending them out on a uniform per child capita basis as vouchers ‘redeemable only for education'”?

    “Hey look, he ‘hates children’ -and- wants more child entitlements?!?”

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