CharacterAssassin (01-16-2019)
No there wasn't, and since I had relatives in the Gulag I am aware of that more than most.
I am not sure who you meant to respond to, but my point was that it takes a person of extraordinary dishonesty to attempt to link the American Democratic Party - to attempt to make them witting accomplices- to the crimes of Joseph Stalin.
CharacterAssassin (01-16-2019)
Truth Detector (01-17-2019)
You misunderstood. A non-agenda-driven school would inform kids about American history. Part of that history involves the path government work has provided many to enter the middle class. From an historical perspective, that's not a controversial idea. For example, a good portion of those who were the first in their family to go to college, in the 20th century, did so thanks to the GI Bill -- a benefit associated with their government employment. That provided a path for many whose families had been poor to rise up into the middle class. The steady, middle-class incomes and decent benefits of many government jobs have similarly served as a route to the middle class. That doesn't mean it's the ONLY route. But when you mostly close down that route for a generation, it disrupts a long-standing feature of the society, and it shouldn't be surprising if that generation then develops different ideas about upward mobility.
I'd be interested to see the pace of "conservatization" of Millennials relative to prior generations. That should be fairly easy to track with good enough data sources. My guess is that it's proceeding more slowly, just based on the data I have seen. For example, if you look at exit polls from the 2018 mid-terms, the Republicans got absolutely manhandled among 30-somethings..... the portion of the Millennials we should expect to have drifted almost to the center. In fact, they even got manhandled by the 30-45 block as a whole, which tends to go for Republicans, historically.
Look at it this way. In the 1994-2010 House elections, 30-45 year olds broke for Republicans five times and for the Democrats twice, and broke 50/50 the other times. All those cycles were close for that demographic -- in fact, going all the way back to 1982, the only significant margins in those age brackets were 10 points for the Republicans in 2002 and 10 for the Democrats in 2008 (riding Obama's coattails). In 2018, despite mid-terms typically favoring Republicans, it was a 19-point margin for the Democrats with that age group.... nearly twice the highest margin on record. The older millennials are voting liberal in a way that people in that age range never have before (at least in over four decades -- I don't have earlier data). If they've drifted right, relative to where they were a decade ago, it's hardly noticeable.
CharacterAssassin (01-16-2019)
When you see the growth occurring around D.C. and northern Virginia because of the growth of government you know a generation is not being left out. Government exists to serve the people, not as an employment center. We face the same issue in education. Many view it as an employment center instead of the focus being on the children
Truth Detector (01-17-2019)
Much of that is private-sector growth that's responding to DC having developed a critical mass of highly-educated people. Government work was the seed crystal for that growth, but it's largely driven by private-sector factors now.
It's always the former and often the latter. The beautiful thing, though, is that it has generally been both at the same time. Even as it was providing a route into the middle class for millions, it was also improving the lives of the rest of us.Government exists to serve the people, not as an employment center.
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LOCK HIM UP!
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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Sailor (01-16-2019), Truth Detector (01-17-2019), USFREEDOM911 (01-16-2019)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Sailor (01-16-2019), Truth Detector (01-17-2019)
USFREEDOM911 (01-16-2019)
"Did Republicans Break the Millennials?" No. Their parents did. The gene pool naturally is thinning out. Wait until you see the generation they create. Ho Lee Fuch.
I don't know if they're destroying America, but those danged kids should STAY OFF MY LAWN!
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Phantasmal (01-16-2019), USFREEDOM911 (01-16-2019)
I think the GI Bill was primarily a benefit of military service. There has been concern that the aging federal government workforce can replace its workers because young people are less interested in those types of jobs. They tend to change jobs more often and having one job for a lifetime does not appeal to many of them.
I also question the idea of their consumerism--it is just a different type. Traveling rather than acquiring stuff is still consuming and very profitable to the travel industry. Advertising is still targeted at younger people because they spend more money on alcohol, fast foods, entertainment. A tv show with good ratings is dropped if the demographic is older. Advertisers must chase them down because their viewing habits have changed, so product placement is now a big part of marketing. They are more attracted to smaller "artisan" brands than the large brand names. Marketers joke you can sell anything to millenials if you call it organic, green, and sustainable.
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