Is it normal that i find millennials far more conservative than their parents?

33% Normal
10 Comments

I'm 30 and in my experience, millennials (who are said to be the most liberal people in America) have views that are far, far more conservative than actual conservatives of my own age. Examples:

Millennials are said to be gay-friendly, but high school is still the absolute worst place for a gay person.

Millennials are said to be pro-worker and anti-corporation, yet millennials practically beg to be ripped-off and used (see music, video games, any electronic device, housing, health care, etc.).

Millennials are said to be more socialist than capitalist, yet when they experience socialism firsthand, they drop it like a hot potato (see Occupy protests, etc.).

Voting Results
33% Normal
Based on 6 votes (2 yes)
Help us keep this site organized and clean. Thanks!
[ Report Post ]
Comments ( 10 )
  • VinnyB
    8 years ago

    When I went to HS not one person, including myself, was out in my HS. Today young people are coming out earlier and being more accepted. Is it 100% acceptance? No, but it a lot better than it was and moving in the right direction. Also, when you are talking about HS you are talking about teenagers who are well known for insecurity and hangups. It is hard to compare them to adult millennials such as yourself.

    I think in consumer based society, people are going purchase things regardless of their feeling on corporations. Things like music were being consumed long before the millennials, the hippie generation couldn't get enough. All of the consumer electronics that you are talking about are far more consumed today. But that has more to do with availability than it does with support for them. Hippies didn't avoid Xboxes smarphones and iPods because they hated corporations, it was because they didn't exist.

    To your last point, I simply don't understand how a protest qualifies as experiencing socialism.

    Also, the term millennial, just like gen Y or gen X implies that all people of a generation think the same, which is a slilly assumption. There are liberals and conservatives and everthing else in every generation.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    4
    4
      -
    • regisphilbin
      8 years ago

      +1, you hit the nail on the head, kudos

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      0
      0
  • Ellenna
    8 years ago

    According to google, millenials are the generation after Gen X.

    All this Gen X and Y and now millenials - it's all bullshit anyway, just another superficial meaningless label used by intellectually lazy people rather than seeing others as individuals. I have two grandsons who are totally different in their approach to life.

    It's time we coined another phrase for it to go with racism, sexism, etc. How about "generationist"?

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    1
    1
  • penisprisoner
    8 years ago

    what the fuck is a millennial?

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    1
    1
  • Tommythecat.
    8 years ago

    They also seem to be a bit whiney?

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • seekelp
    8 years ago

    Statistically speaking, you're incorrect.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    8 years ago

    mosta the young peoples what come workin for me in the coal mine are hard workin smart sober gogetters whatre happy to have work

    not drunken lazy buffoons what i grew up with and strove to git away from

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
      -
    • green_boogers
      8 years ago

      Yep, copy that. They'alls seem to got higher abstract reasoning as well. Gotta credit their mothers for stayin off shine back when they were pregnant.

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      0
      0
  • dirtybirdy
    8 years ago

    I'm not sure I pay that much attention. Plus there's those pesky political jargons that make me scratch my noggin.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    I think it's because the quality of the educational system (in the US, at least) has been steadily declining.
    The less educated seem to regress to conservatism, because what they know is safer than what they might find if they broaden their attitudes.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    -1
    -1