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Just outside my local Walmart, a high school/college aged youth was trying to get young people to vote. I watched as he was ignored by every person that he accosted. After about 15 minutes, I asked him why he did not ask me if I were registered to vote? He ignored me. Then I asked him why he was only targeting millennials. No answer. Then I told him that he was not going to be successful. He then spoke up and agreed with me. He said that they were all glued to their phones and did not care about voting. Poor guy did not have a clue. | ||
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I'll bet he was hired to sign up new voters, but ordered to only focus on a "certain" demographic that would lean to the left. Young college aged kids. Has nothing to do with civic duty. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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He was working for an organization. It was funny to watch his frustrations | |||
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 What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
I am far from a Millennial but at that age I was MUCH less interested in politics. It was a simpler time. {sigh} | |||
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Political Cynic |
probably not a bad thing when you think about it if they're not interested in voting that means fewer socialists going to the polls looking for yet another free ride as an entitlement [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Chilihead and Barbeque Aficionado |
Yea, it might be better if they didn't vote. We don't need more voters feeling the Bern, or whatever flavor of socialism is in style at the moment. _________________________ 2nd Amendment Defender The Second Amendment is not about hunting or sport shooting. | |||
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I am curious as to why Wal-Mart? Starbucks, yess........ | |||
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Are you sure about that? I think this forum still believes that Millennials are mostly teenagers, when the youngest members are now 23 and the oldest, 38 years old (1980-1995 birth year). This is a generation that has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in many cases are settled down with babies and families in Suburbia. I think in many cases, members are stuck in a 10-15 year time warp where Millennials are pasty faced 19 year olds. No one in undergrad is a millennial anymore, now this is a generation that works and pays taxes. Oh, and surprise:  | |||
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Up until about eight or nine years ago I didn't care about politics, then I listened to what Obama was saying and got scared. I was right. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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reloader-1 is correct, however most of the millennials in that particular demographic are already inclined to vote so they're not the target its the low information low IQ they are trying to sign up [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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| That rug really tied the room together.  |
The post above has millennials going all the way back to a 1980 birthdate. I strongly disagree. I read something recently that puts 1978-1986 into their own micro generation, and in between generation. Which I readily agree with. Most of my friends are 1978-1984 and we lack anything in common with millenials. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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Pew, Reuters, Ipsos, and a host of others define Millennial as between the early 80’s and the late 90’s, with some including up to 2002 or so. The US Census Bureau uses 1982-2000. | |||
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Exactly. It's gotten to the point that the term is just a catch phrase, like Baby Boomer. Since we have quite a few of them here, I wonder if they still think that all Baby Boomers were war protestors and flower children? | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
Shit! It looks like I’m a millennial! | |||
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| stupid beyond all belief  |
Im on the fringe as well. They made a new group for those between y and X i think as certain millenials pre everyone get a trophy dont have the same issues as the "traditional" thouggt of millenials. Link to original video: https://youtu.be/15iLHlJPp_0 What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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As to the “sub-groups” of millennials, I’m of the opinion that most of that difference is explained by natural aging and maturity. Is there really a massive difference nowadays between a 37 year old born in 1981, and a 33 year old in 1985? | |||
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| quarter MOA visionary |
Fresh off the mountain with a broken back.  | |||
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| That rug really tied the room together. |
I would say yes. My sister in law is 33. Her and her group of friends are DRASTICALLY different than my wife and I's group of friends and we are only 3-4 years older. Its night and day. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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But that's a sample size of one, and it makes sense that your sister would associate with people similar to her - if she is dissimilar to you, then her friends would be as well. I'm not saying that a large percentage of millennials aren't morons; of course they are! Just that there are a fairly significant number of them that aren't and that number grows as they age. | |||
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