Miseducated Or Stupid?

[Ethereal]

The personification of your point

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And your generation hasn't produced embarrassing politicians? Have you noticed that Trump has orange skin and Tweets like a high-school girl?

[Ethereal]

These things are cyclical. Todays Millennials have grown up during the economic crisis of 2008-. In large numbers they could find not work (that they wanted to do). Many lived with their parents and stayed in school racking up a great deal of debt. Student loan debt has now exceeded $2T and their is little chance that all of it will be paid back. I would offer than perhaps 30% of it will be paid back and the rest defaulted on.

In that light it is no wonder that Millenials want government to force others to take care of them. I think they will be disappointed.

Every American generation in the 20th century has demanded that the government take care of them. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were not put into place by millenials.

[Captain Obvious]

My fathers Generation is called the Greatest Generation, Millenials will be called eventually the Most Worthless Generation, the most uninformed and indoctrinated, lazy, entitled group of Americans ever. We all know who we can thank for that, but of course only half of us will say it.


A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter. Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably. Lenin was the first premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Half of millennials have never heard of Communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1976 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.


The number of people who died at the hands of Josef Stalin may be as high as 62 million. However, almost one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is responsible for more killings than Stalin. By the way, Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people. The Nazis come in as a poor third in terms of history's most prolific mass murderers. According to professor Rudolph Rummel's research, the 20th century, mankind's most brutal century, saw 262 million people's lives destroyed at the hands of their own governments.


Young people who weren't alive during World War II and its Cold War aftermath might be forgiven for not knowing the horrors of socialism. Some of their beliefs represent their having been indoctrinated by their K-12 teachers and college professors. There was such leftist hate for former President George W. Bush that it's not out of the question that those 32 percent of millennials were taught by their teachers and professors that Bush murdered more people than Stalin.


America's communists, socialists and Marxists have little knowledge of socialist history. Bradley Birzer, a professor of history at Hillsdale College, explains this in an article for The American Conservative titled "Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins."
Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1925, "It would be better for us to end our existence under Bolshevism than to endure slavery under capitalism." This Nazi sentiment might be shared by Sen. Bernie Sanders and his comrade Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Goebbels added, "I think it is terrible that we and the Communists are bashing in each other's heads."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39181...ter-e-williams

That was a stunning account of history. Not that I didn't realize it but just reading that was kind of surreal.

[Captain Obvious]

Every American generation in the 20th century has demanded that the government take care of them. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were not put into place by millenials.

Retirement and healthcare isn't that much to ask for for working citizens. It's the freeloaders that's the issue.

"Progress" brought entitlements, that just being a citizen entitled you to security.

The disjoint lies in where entitlements and earnings separated.

[Ethereal]

By the way, if you dig into the polling data, you will find that millenial support for socialism decreases significantly when the meaning of socialism is explained to them. Many young people who support "socialism" in polls do so out of an ignorance of what it actually entails.

[Ethereal]

Retirement and healthcare isn't that much to ask for for working citizens. It's the freeloaders that's the issue.

"Progress" brought entitlements, that just being a citizen entitled you to security.

The disjoint lies in where entitlements and earnings separated.

Each generation has asked for more government entitlements than the past generation. And that's why many said Social Security would be a slippery slope if passed.

[Captain Obvious]

By the way, if you dig into the polling data, you will find that millenial support for socialism decreases significantly when the meaning of socialism is explained to them. Many young people who support "socialism" in polls do so out of an ignorance of what it actually entails.

I don't think that's a phenomenon that's new here, people vote and support based on the myths and legends they hear but don't experience, that's not a new phenomenon in this life history and I don't think highly of millennials but I don't... hold that against them at this point.

I was young and stupid at one point, maybe still am but don't know it but I'm a far different person now at 50 when I was at 20 and some kids I know amaze me at how much they know when I never had a clue at that age.

So I'm not really giving up on this age, maybe they need to just have some life experiences like you and I did.

[Captain Obvious]

Each generation has asked for more government entitlements than the past generation. And that's why many said Social Security would be a slippery slope if passed.

It's only a slippery slope because it's become a fiscal/political football.

[Peter1469]

Most millennials grow up, attend school, around different people and cultures, so their outlook on society is vastly different than previous generations. I would say they have the ability to stand in other’s shoes and show empathy more-so than older generations.

I think it is more than that. As I said above, these cultural trends are cyclical. You are probably right about their college experience, to some degree. My college was somewhat diverse, but my law school was very diverse- Tulane is an international school.

What I think has more importance is their early years- how they are raised. That is where you see a big difference from our generations to the Millennials.

[Peter1469]

What was so great about them? And what makes them greater than the generation that founded America?



Actually, that will be the baby-boomers, the most hypocritical, conceited, and brainwashed generation in US history. Under their watch, the US has become a shadow of its former self. All the major problems this country is facing today emerged while baby-boomers were badly mismanaging the political system. It wasn't millennials who threw away trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives on disastrous wars in Vietnam and Iraq. It wasn't millenials who voted for massive expansions to government welfare programs. It wasn't millenials who crashed the economy with their reckless accumulation of debt. And it wasn't millenials who let a few Middle Easterners hijack planes and fly them into the World Trade Centers. Nope, that was all the baby-boomer generation. Most DC politicians are baby-boomers. Washington DC is a corrupt mess, naturally. But blaming someone else is the go-to boomer response, even if the ones they're blaming haven't been in charge of anything yet.

I had to Google generations - I am Generation X.

Funny, I managed to go 48 years without knowing that.