Millennials Really Hate the Republicans

[Exotica]

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/23/millennials-really-hate-the-republicans/

Obviously, I am not in an optimistic mood today, but there are still at least theoretical hopes for the future, if there is a future. For example, there are the young people.

Women are more Democratic than men, and younger voters are more Democratic than older ones. The former has been true for decades, and the latter is a trend that’s at least 10 or 15 years old. But a new Pew survey using a huge sample to allow for insight into demographic details shows that the intersection of these two trends is staggeringly large.

Among millennials, which Pew identifies as people born between 1981 and 1996, men lean toward Democrats by 8 percentage points — far and away a bigger tilt toward Democrats than older cohorts of men. But millennial women favor Democrats by a staggeringly large 70-23 margin.

Fewer than one in four women born after 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected president, prefer the Republicans to the Democrats. And even the men show a significant preference for the Democrats. Now, it’s often said with some justification that people grow more conservative with age. Simple tax aversion would tend to move people in that direction. Studies that show fear is a common component in conservative views probably explain the rest of the drift. People in their teens and twenties often feel invulnerable, especially when compared to people suffering the ravages of middle and old age.

But, on the other hand, there are studies that show that most people never abandon the political views of their youth, especially if we’re not talking about political views they’ve simply inherited from their parents. There will no doubt be plenty of churn in how individual millennials view the world, but it looks locked in now that this will be a generation that strongly rejects conservative views on a host of issues.

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[Maeve]

1. I believe the feeling is mutual

The Republicans have shown no real sympathy or empathy for anyone younger than 55 for years and certainly no feeling for people stuck in the gig economy, working multiple jobs and still not able to pay off their student loans. And as for those who can't reach the usual goals of owning a home and starting a family now that they are in their 20's and 30's--well, they must just be slackers and losers, right? (Said as the mother of 4 millenials who work their tails off)

[chuckstevens]

2. But,

Will they vote in November and will the Democratic Party listen?

[Xipe Totec]

3. I think they hate pompous assholes in general but there's a lot of overlap. nt

[frazzled]

4. But they need to seriously up their turnout

which, historically, is abysmally low in midterms. In 2014, only 19% of them voted. They do better in presidential years, but still considerably lower than their elders.

On the good side, for the future, as these younger voters age they tend to increase their turnout to the normal levels of the older groups.

But we need them now, and we need them to vote for viable, electable Democrats (not just on promises of free tuition, etc.). Let’s make sensible gun control a big issue this year while it’s hot (unless you are in a very conservative district; then just vote for the Democrat to take back control of the House ... that’s the only hope for getting legislation passed.)

[RandomAccess]

5. "frighteningly liberal" --

that was the term Frank Luntz used a few years ago to describe them after doing some focus groups.

[NCTraveler]

6. This needs to be one of our biggest targets.

Major GOTV effort. We can get more and more of them to the polls. It’s the pending death of today’s conservatism holding clout in the political sphere. They are on our side, for the most part. They could use a little push and all efforts should be made to help them vote.

[Corgigal]

7. They don't fear different colored humans.

Hell, might know a few of each and have friends, and dating in fine.

America is growing up. More then one culture in America is fine, in fact might adopt some more fun activities from other parts of the world.

I made sure all my kids got out of this country and saw, and lived around other cultures. It makes a difference. My daughter was sponsored to live in England for a summer, lord I loved the fathers voice. My family still laughs about that. My son lived in China for a summer. We took in two foreign exchange students, Finland and Serbia.

Fear is a primal thing, but it can be tamed.

[appalachiablue]

8. MSNBC's Joy Reid was just on this topic at the March, Millennials favoring Dems.,big.

She interviewed TOM STEYER whose group, "NextGen America" is also registering HS students to VOTE which is great.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/22/tom-steyer-gun-safety-high-school-voter-registration-422336