I know it's fashionable to consider Millenials a bunch of self-absorbed Obamabots. In fact, every generation of elders thinks the youths are a pack of losers. It happens.
But recall Trump's speech before the Boy Scouts last summer...he TORE IT UP and the Scouts? They LOVED IT.
Kids who are now 15 will get to vote in 2020...Young Millennials will also vote.
True, some men, you just can't reach. We'll never get the latest round of gun controlling rabble. But those at the margin, they're likely converts. Frankly, I would argue that there are a large proportion of youths who are ALREADY in our camp.
Specifically, consider Deplorable parents of soon-to-be (if not already) Deplorable Millennials. Any poll be it from the National Institute on Retirement Security (mentioned in this article) or something else speaking of Millennials being this or that should be treated with suspicion (more on this later). Deplorable parents likely hang up when a telemarketer calls, or walk away from dopes with clipboards, or not surrendering their IP address and filling out some online poll, thus causing an underweighting in polls. I suspect their Deplorable children are following suit.
Taking all of that into account, you'd expect Deplorable Millennials to be underrepresented in polls. And yet, close scrutiny of this often-quoted study that paints Millennials as "pro-Communism" pod eaters, all you need to do is scratch a little to find out things aren't all they're made out to be:
-The results are from an Online Survey!
-Sample size is 2,300 people from the public, age 16+...about the same number of people going to a local hall to catch some 1980s Band Reunion Tour.
-Millennials make up 559 people in this sample...so we're going to extrapolate across millions of Millennials on the basis of a few hundred souls who answered an online poll?
-even with all this statistical sampling mumbo-jumbo, the talking heads failed to note that 7 in 10 Americans as a whole either don’t know the definition of communism or misidentify it. What's noteworthy is that this ratio holds not just for Millennials but ALL AGE CATEGORIES. So if you're bashing the kidz, we should look in the mirror as well.
-whites had the highest favorable view of communism over any other race...they also had the highest unfavorable proportion of any race. Indeed, if you look at the favorable and unfavorable percentages, it looks like some dopes held the same views!!
I call BS on this claim that Millennials are in the tank for socialism and anti-capitalist. I'm not saying the little whippers don't need to have some smart pills. But a little critical analysis would behoove all of us, especially as we endeavor to get more folks on the MAGA train to win again in 2020.