http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-50645727.html
"Next month, as the class of 2013 moves into the dorms, Wisconsin's Beloit College will release its annual "Mindset List." The list is that much-forwarded email that always makes you feel old--the one that includes horrifying factoids like, "for today's college freshmen, GPS navigation systems have always been available," and, "there has always been Pearl Jam."
More horrifying still, soon they'll all be able to vote.
The generation born from the late 1970s to the early '90s has been called "Gen Y," "GenNext," and "the Millennials." Its name is Legion. But whatever name they go by, and despite their image as web-savvy individualists, when it comes to politics, young voters are as collectivist as they come.
In May, the Center for American Progress released a lengthy survey of polling data on Millennials, concluding that they're a "Progressive Generation," eager to increase federal power."
In 2008, the nonpartisan National Election Study asked Americans whether "the free market" or "a strong government" would better handle "today's complex economic problems." By a margin of 78 to 22 percent, Millennials opted for "strong government."
Kids today are a credulous bunch. The 2007 Pew Political Values survey revealed "a generation gap in cynicism." Where 62 percent of Americans overall view the federal government as wasteful and inefficient, just 42 percent of young people agree. No wonder, then, that GenNext responds to President Obama's call for "public service," roughly translated as "a federal paycheck."
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My take: it's amazing that a generation of kids that have seen the Katrina response disaster, the Iraq and Afghan war quagmires, the bankrupty of social security, medicare, and other entitlement programs, a government-engineering financial crisis and trillions in bailouts to wall street, and a 2 trillion dollar deficit can characterize government as efficient.
A Reddit thread that demonstrates this is here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/com...plan_dropping/
People are actually congratulating each other over choosing a government service that would be subsidized by taxpayers over the private service where taxpayers are not leeched.
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