| | It all makes perfect sense to me. The 60's, IMO, was the beginning of an existential world. The kids have the first existential parents to learn freedom of ideas and modern thinking from, and a new society and technology geared toward information and complexity of thought.
The girls today are the first generation of fully emancipated females the world has ever seen and boy are they a tour de force. Black girls go to college 2 to 1 over the boys. In the last two decades women, to women relationships is up 400%. Females apparently have more sexual elasticity than males. Many prefer their own kind as more to their liking. Women are more civilized by nature is my guess.
Females are moving left even more than males.
So it only makes sense the millennial's would not go to church, or get married and move left.
The right is wrong about everything and the kids can see it.
The left has most stuff correct and is open to new ideas, so they are gravitating toward it.
The only question remains can the right destroy us before the left gains enough political power?
<< The new survey shows how the millennial adults are "forging a distinctive path into adulthood," said Paul Taylor, Pew's executive vice president and co-author of the report.
This can especially be seen when it comes to politics. Only 27 percent said they consider themselves Democrats and 17 percent said Republicans. The half of millennials who say they are independent is an increase from 38 percent back in 2004.
"It's not that they don't have strong opinions, political opinions, they do," Taylor said. "It's simply that they choose not to identify themselves with either political party."
The number of self-described independents is lower among their predecessors. Only 39 percent of those in Generation X said they were independents, along with 37 percent of the boomers and 32 percent of the Silent Generation.
Pew describes Gen Xers as those from age 34-49, boomers as 50-68 and the Silent Generation as those 69-86.
When the self-identified Democratic millennials are combined with the self-described independents who lean Democratic, half — 50 percent — of the millennials are Democrats or Democratic-leaning while 34 percent are Republicans or Republican-leaning.
"They don't choose to identify, but they have strong views and their views are views that most people conventionally associate with the Democratic Party," Taylor said. "They believe in a big activist government on some of the social issues of the day — gay marriage, marijuana legalization, immigration. Their views are much more aligned with the Democratic Party."
Taylor said they don't know whether millennial voting trends will stay the same as they get older. |
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