Survey: Millennials Love Big Government?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown|May. 20, 2014 12:09 pm
Millennial Vote/FacebookLast week Youth Engagement Fund and Project New America released a new survey on millennial ideology. Millennials—roughly defined as those aged 18 to 33—are my people. I tend to stick up for us. I tend to take heart in this generation’s support for marriage equality and ending the drug war, among other things…
But holy geez Gen Y, this is a poor showing. On measures from “creating jobs” to “making college affordable” to “protecting the rights of women,” millennials overwhelmingly said they favored greater government involvement. And when asked whether they would rather have government “off their backs” or “on their side,” 59 percent of millennials voted for friendly paternalism.
For the survey, Harstad Strategic Research polled more than 2,000 18- to 31-year-olds in March and April 2014. Of course, it should be noted that Youth Engagement Fund, Project New America, and Harstad are all progressive organizations. Maybe there’s some subtle linguistic bias driving these results?
https://reason.com/blog/2014/05/20/survey-millennials-love-big-government
Why would this be a surprise from the generation that is resisting responsibility any way they can? If life were a car, then these perpetual children will keep riding in the passenger seat instead of driving.
In general, a useless generation of ‘do-nothings’ who grew up with a sense of ‘entitlement’.
This is the first generation raised by ‘helicopter parents’.
You reap what you sow.
RIP USA as we know it.
Shouldn’t it be “Survey: Municipal Pensioners Love Big Government?” They’ve squeezed so much blood out of taxpayers that we now can’t afford the promises we’ve made (see the state of the State of NJ). And yet pensioners want millennials to subsidize their retirement by paying higher taxes as a % of their income on earned wages, so that the coupon clippers can pay lower rates on their dividends and capital gains? Which perversely inflates asset values on real estate and risk assets like stocks, and makes them too expensive for younger people to afford? You’re blaming people without any political power while you make them pay for your retirement? Classic generational warfare and pensioners are winning.