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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Fri Mar 7, 2014, 07:32 PM Mar 2014

Millennials Are Deeply Confused About Everything

This generation is getting totally screwed by the economy ... but we're the most optimistic generation in the country.

This is the most technologically connected generation in modern history ... but also the least trusting.

This generation has record numbers of single parents ... but it also has the most negative attitudes toward single parents.

Millennials are famously "the most diverse generation ever" ... but we don't even deserve the label.

This is the most educated generation ever ... and the deepest in student loan debt.

The U.S. economy has never been bigger ... but it's never been harder to live better than our parents did.

Millennials are less likely to self-identify as Republicans or Democrats ... but they also have the highest approval rating of Congress.

Millennials are much more liberal on gay marriage, pot, and immigration ... but no more liberal on abortion or gun control.

Most Millennials (like all generations) oppose benefit cuts to Social Security ... but young people also don't think there will be any money left in Social Security when they graduate.

Millennials voted overwhelmingly for Obama, want universal health care, and are fine with a bigger government ... but they oppose Obamacare just like everybody else.

It's funny that young people are the least likely to identify as Democrats or Republicans since our voting record in presidential elections leans more Democratic than any group since 1972.

"They care deeply about the environment" ... except that they really don't.

http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-confused-about-everything-2014-3

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Millennials Are Deeply Confused About Everything (Original Post) FarCenter Mar 2014 OP

fair enough. this Atlantic author of article Business Insider stole is approx. 28 Pretzel_Warrior Mar 2014 #1

The person ProSense Mar 2014 #2

Pretzel_Warrior

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1. fair enough. this Atlantic author of article Business Insider stole is approx. 28

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Fri Mar 7, 2014, 07:44 PM

Mar 2014

so I guess he's allowed to write about his own generation

ProSense

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2. The person

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Fri Mar 7, 2014, 07:53 PM

Mar 2014

"Millennials Are Deeply Confused About Everything"

...who wrote that piece spent a lot of time searching for an angle to criticize Millennials. Some of the points have nothing to do with being "confused" ("This is the most educated generation ever ... and the deepest in student loan debt.&quot Others are simply bogus assertions. For example, the point about Obamacare

Millennials voted overwhelmingly for Obama, want universal health care, and are fine with a bigger government ... but they oppose Obamacare just like everybody else.

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But even though Gen-Y started off in the tank for Obama; and even though they support universal insurance by the widest margin of any group (54-44 percent); and even though they're most supportive of big government, Millennials' view of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a.: Obamacare) is just as negative as the rest of the country. Yes, even though it keeps them on their parents' insurance plan until 27.

Actually, their opposition isn't "just like everybody else." In fact, the accompanying chart shows that while they disapprove of the law, they're the only group that believe Government is responsible for providing health care.

Millennial generation less religious, more liberal than older ones
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024622714

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