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The Millenial generation was born between 1982 and 2002. How do you think generation Y's politics will go?

Also, please tell us what you think of the Millenial Generation, and what you think they think about religion, abortion, sexuality, drug legislation, and so on.

Remember that this is a BIG generation. Bigger than the Baby Boomers they say.

I think they will be mainly populists, with many extremeists on all sides like right now.

I don't like Generation Y.

I don't like Generation Y.


I don't either, and I'm a part of it. It's scary really. I get along better with Gen Xers.

The Millenial generation was born between 1982 and 2002. How do you think generation Y's politics will go?

Also, please tell us what you think of the Millenial Generation, and what you think they think about religion, abortion, sexuality, drug legislation, and so on.

Remember that this is a BIG generation. Bigger than the Baby Boomers they say.
yay i'm part of Gen Y! w00t!

oh wait thats a bad thing :(


well my early years were spent under conservative rule, till i was 12, and had a definite negative impact regarding conservative & right-wing policies on me. since then (1997) we've had labour (apparently more left) and positive, sustained economic growth, and generally a healthier country.

this leads me to have a left wing standpoint, but most of Gen Y doesn't give a toss i'm sure :rolleyes:

if they do, many of my friends at school held onto the 'whats in it for me' culture of the 80s, learned from their parents i guess. however at uni, these same people have chilled out and gone more left. so i can't really say

I think grouping those born between 1982 and 2002 before we're certain that they'll share commonalities is a sort of iffy genre identification. according to my training in rhetiorical criticism, genres define themselves (and who is contained in them) by what they accomplish, experience, or collectively believe (substantive and stylistic properties in that face of a certain exigency). It seems a little premature to say that a 23-year old of today is going to be parctically in a similar group/wave of children as a 3-year old of today--that they'll share styilistic and substantive responses to the same exigency.

I mean, it's easy to say that these kids are similar because of their relative closeness in age (compared to a 60 year old and a 3 year old), but I think we're going to have to wait to see if our arbitrary divisions can predict real group ideology or movement. That's when calling a group of kids Generation Y will mean something. Classification always follows practice.

I'm part of generation Yuppie. I mean...er...generation Y.

Spend spend spend!

EDIT: Oh yeah, the saying. We'll all just vot with whoever appears popular in the media at the time. For example, C4 News says 'Tony Blair is a nasty man!' and we'd all vote other than Labour. We are a generation of idiots and morons. Yay for Y...

http://www.zoo.co.uk/~mmenterprises/chad.jpg

Wot, no Anarchism?

I think grouping those born between 1982 and 2002 before we're certain that they'll share commonalities is a sort of iffy genre identification.

Yeah, this is just sort of a guessing game. I mean year before last when I was 18, I called myself a liberal and liked their ideals, but around April of last year I switched to being a libertarian. I have no need to change now though. I feel libertarianism is best, which I guess is why I like Generation X and not my generation right now. In politics classes I was very scared of my generation. They wanted the news media to have next to no rights and said the Constitution of the US, where I live, was outdated and should be scrapped. These are the people who will control the world in 40 years??? Yikes!

http://www.zoo.co.uk/~mmenterprises/chad.jpg

Wot, no Anarchism?

That would be a portion of libertarianism. Libertarianism can be little gov. or no gov at all.

I'm actually acquianted with an increasing number of libertarian types amongst my friends. Some leftists, and a few rightists. I'm hoping my generation will be more liberty-minded than past generations.


Quick one-liners for each of the most recognized generations: WWIIers-duty, baby boomers-gimme, eighties people/gen x-buyee! What will millenials be?

I'm actually acquianted with an increasing number of libertarian types amongst my friends. Some leftists, and a few rightists. I'm hoping my generation will be more liberty-minded than past generations.


Quick one-liners for each of the most recognized generations: WWIIers-duty, baby boomers-gimme, eighties people/gen x-buyee! What will millenials be?

I hope you are right. I'm tired of today's politics where you are either right-winged or wrong. I've been reading some polls, and Millenials are very culturally liberal, but most agree with Bush's social security plan. That would be libertarian, but then I see that more people are becoming pro-life as well.

I'm part of generation Yuppie. I mean...er...generation Y.

Spend spend spend!

EDIT: Oh yeah, the saying. We'll all just vot with whoever appears popular in the media at the time. For example, C4 News says 'Tony Blair is a nasty man!' and we'd all vote other than Labour. We are a generation of idiots and morons. Yay for Y...


I'm glad this crap doesn't apply for our whole generation but apparently just for the people you're hanging around with :rolleyes: I rather think the opposite. While political views will be differ on a very wide range in this young generation that I am part of, I am absolutely convinced that at least the political interest of this generation will be a lot bigger then that of the generation before us. At least that is what I have been observing in the people around me (ranging mostly between 16 and 20 years, me myself being 19)

Bush's social security plan.

He seriously has one? Other then taking Social Security away from the people?

My guess is populist, with a heavy focus on screwing with people's lives, but not businesses.

Honestly, I feel sorry for generation P(osers). They have a really dull cultural identity, are growing up in a time of massive ignorance, are about to have all of their social security given to Enronoids, are going to have to help keep their parents alive, if they're fairly young, since their parents won't have time to adapt to the new system, and the one thing that unified them as kids (Mass Media) is quickly turning on them, and is going to tick them all off soon, leaving many people feeling stranded.

And then the teen baby boom from the attack on sex ed...

The nightmares from growing up with a sparkles and gel culture...

EW.

I'm glad this crap doesn't apply for our whole generation but apparently just for the people you're hanging around with :rolleyes: I rather think the opposite. While political views will be differ on a very wide range in this young generation that I am part of, I am absolutely convinced that at least the political interest of this generation will be a lot bigger then that of the generation before us. At least that is what I have been observing in the people around me (ranging mostly between 16 and 20 years, me myself being 19)
Firstly, the people I hang around with had little or no bearing on my judgement as they aren't really a representative group. Secondly, I think it's more the people that you hang around with that have given you the view of political interest. Apathy is on the rise, massive majorities are being achieved in parliament (suggesting people are just 'going with the flow') political parties are becoming more homogeneous to suit the sloth-like voting ability of your average modern voter...the list goes on.

Not aimed at anyone: While institutions such as nationstates show a wide political stance, this is probably because it is a political game. People interested in NS will have at least some base interest in politics, hence wider views will be shown in greaer proportions than in the average population. Using NS as a political example for the world is bordering on farcical - we are a minority in our strong views.

The Millenial generation was born between 1982 and 2002. How do you think generation Y's politics will go?

Also, please tell us what you think of the Millenial Generation, and what you think they think about religion, abortion, sexuality, drug legislation, and so on.

Remember that this is a BIG generation. Bigger than the Baby Boomers they say.
Oh, is that my generation? Coolness. I think we'll be at least slightly more liberal leaning than the previous generation.

well my early years were spent under conservative rule, till i was 12, and had a definite negative impact regarding conservative & right-wing policies on me. since then (1997) we've had labour (apparently more left) and positive, sustained economic growth, and generally a healthier country.

this leads me to have a left wing standpoint, but most of Gen Y doesn't give a toss i'm sure :rolleyes:

if they do, many of my friends at school held onto the 'whats in it for me' culture of the 80s, learned from their parents i guess. however at uni, these same people have chilled out and gone more left. so i can't really say

I think that yes generation Y will become more left until they get into the real world when they will suddenly swing to the right.

I also believe that there will be far more libertarians. With social and economic freedoms being valued.

My guess is Libertarian. More internet=more freedom.
More freedom+10 million activites in a week=Self-identity.
Self-identity=don't f* with my life attitude.

In addition, the libertarian movement was super-charged by the fall of communism...which is probably going to be reflect in our post-Cold War generation.

Note: This applies to the US. I cannot speak for Europe.

The Millenial generation was born between 1982 and 2002. How do you think generation Y's politics will go?

Also, please tell us what you think of the Millenial Generation, and what you think they think about religion, abortion, sexuality, drug legislation, and so on.

Remember that this is a BIG generation. Bigger than the Baby Boomers they say.

Being a part of this generation and a left-winger, I'm disgusted by all the right-wing children. They literally know nothing about the issues and get all their information from their christian right-wing parents.

Being a part of this generation and a left-winger, I'm disgusted by all the right-wing children. They literally know nothing about the issues and get all their information from their christian right-wing parents.

Being a part of this generation and a right-winger, I'm disgusted by all the left wing adults. It's like they have nothing better to do than go out on sidewalks and protest a war or blow up a medical research facility that tests animals.

Anyway, to the topic at hand, the way it's going, by the time most of what ya'll call the "millenial" generation are adults, politics will no longer be around. Frankly, nobody gives a crap. That's why Kerry lost, because young folks who everybody thinks would vote for Kerry don't give a crap. We figger, they's in Washington D.C., and I'm out here, what are they gon' do? My pockets are fine. So eventually The U.S. at least will dissolve into Anarchy, with some autonomous police(probably a corporation) keeping folks from killing one another.

EDIT: Wow, actually called myself a "right weiner." Stupid typos.

Firstly, the people I hang around with had little or no bearing on my judgement as they aren't really a representative group. Secondly, I think it's more the people that you hang around with that have given you the view of political interest. Apathy is on the rise, massive majorities are being achieved in parliament (suggesting people are just 'going with the flow') political parties are becoming more homogeneous to suit the sloth-like voting ability of your average modern voter...the list goes on.

Not aimed at anyone: While institutions such as nationstates show a wide political stance, this is probably because it is a political game. People interested in NS will have at least some base interest in politics, hence wider views will be shown in greaer proportions than in the average population. Using NS as a political example for the world is bordering on farcical - we are a minority in our strong views.

Hear hear. Gen Y is the worst thing since....bread unslicers....yeah. Even at my old college (purportedly one of the best in the country, and academic as opposed to vocational), I was surrounded by shallow apathetic....morons, basically. Mostly, they don't trust the government, want lower taxes, tighter immigration control, and for someone to do all of their thinking for them. Oh, and if they were literate enough I'm sure there'd be a movement to recolour the Union Jack in Burberry.

Any chance I can emmigrate to Gen X?