Milennials are the leftiest generation since FDR

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Will this put to rest the myth that millennials are moving the country rightward?

It is still plausible that younger millennials are more conservative than older millennials, that the 18-24 cohort is still up for grabs whereas the 25-30 group is set in stone as the strongest cohort for Dems their entire lives.

Those of us who were kids under Clinton, young adults in the Bush years, who came of age in a flurry of hanging chads, are certainly more likely to stick with the Dems, whereas younger folks who only know Obama's presidency might be more willing to toy with other options: libertarians, Pubs, leftist third parties, etc.

I think the 25-early 30s group of the generation have become distinct from the younger half of the Millennial generation.  But I really don't think it'll be any more or less liberal than the younger half.  Even if they weren't teens when Bush was elected, they still remember 9/11 and the latter years of the Bush presidency... which were his worst.  They don't remember the heady 80+% approvals he got after 9/11.

I think the generation was originally very open to Democrats.  But the Democrats have been disappointing and as economic growth hasn't sped up and things have remained pretty awful for young people, they have been pushed further and further left.

And the people coming up behind us are following in our footsteps and are actively adopting those ideologies and those lifestyles even while the older Millennials were initially reticent to do so due to the expectations of prosperity and that things owuld get better.

Obviously there are events that take place that shape the political direction of each generation (they don't always coincide with cultural generations).  While 9/11 was a big impact, like the Kennedy assassination... it didn't have nearly the psychological scars (a one time event) that the Great Recession did.. just as the oil crisis and stagflation impacted those same people that remembered Kennedy's assassination.

I also think older Millennials actually have more left-wing positions than they'll admit.  When asked issue by issue they almost always identify with the center or even far left... yet they would consider themselves "independents".

This disconnect is what is going to lead to the massive change that is likely already in the pipeline.  We know what we want.  We know nothing in the current paradigm will allow it to happen.  We want a new paradigm.  F**k all with the old one.

I think he's talking about the snowstalker part of millenial generation, not you and I since our positions are much closer than the sagers which will likely end up more conservative.

Is it really fair to plop an entire group of people as "the snowstalker part of the millenial generation"? I was born roughly around the same time as he--though I am, of course, older--and don't take kindly to that kind of labeling.