What Millennials Think About Politics
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Millennials: Who are they? What do they believe? Why do we care? Armed with data from the recent Reason-Rupe poll on the same subject, Reason TV explored these questions on the campus of University of California, Irvine by asking students in the 18-29 age group to talk about their political philosophies, their attitudes towards Democrats and Republicans, their reactions to the word "socialism," and their perspectives on entrepreneurship. "Right now, I think of [socialism] as more of a postive, because I think our country could use it a little bit more," said one student who typifies attitude represented in the Reason-Rupe poll, which found that 42 percent of millennials favor socialism over capitalism. However, as Reason polling director Emily Ekins explains, this may be because millennials simply have a different understanding of socialism than prior generations who came of age during the Cold War. "If they were to understand that 'socialism' meant government running Facebook, Amazon, Uber... they would not like that," says Ekins, who found that only 32 percent of millennials favor a "government-managed economy" over a "free market economy." Millennials also have a distrust of the two-party system and increasingly identify as independents, with 34 percent declining to indentify with a political party even when asked if they lean one way or another, a rate three times higher than that of Americans over 30 years old. Ekins says that Millennials speak a different political language than older generations, a language shaped in no small part by major world events like 9/11, the financial crisis, and two wars in the Middle East, all of which occured as this generation came of an age where politics began to matter to them. "We need to be more concrete and specific with the words we use when we talk to young people," says Ekins. "Words like capitalism and socialism, language from the Cold War, post-World War II era is just not going to work, because those words have lost meaning." Approximately 7 minutes. Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by Paul Detrick. Visit http://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions. And subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel for daily content like this.
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MILENNIALS HAVE SMART PHONES. If they WANT to be smart- they can look it up!! It's so easy to research the situation our country is in and what direction it's been going in for decades since Eisenhower.If they knew anmbiut the BUSH/ CRIME CARTEL selling the largest amount of cocaine out of Mena, AK airport and running this country into the ground for the Globalists to take over like they tried with the EUROPEAN UNION that has failed- they would know that the Trump family was built on integrity (look it up).
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i just barely barely escaped the millenial generation... god damn I am so happy they are absolutely awful.
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I think it's wrong to cast all of us millennials into a broad generalization or categorization of the assumption that we're stupid. most of us, maybe could use some guidance and information, but the slander isn't helping. There are some millennials that are politically knowledgeable, albeit somewhat rare. I think millennials have a lot of pros and cons just like any other generation. I think some of the biggest pros that we have is our eagerness, creativity, passion and high energy, it's just that most of us don't direct that energy where it would be useful for progression. Socialism isn't the answer obviously. A lot of us, from the standpoint of that generation, are simply misguided, misinformed, these are our cons. Growing up with too many distractions technologically, sucked into social media culture, not reading enough and not being able to be free thinkers.
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So you performed informal polls at college campuses (our temples of liberalism) and came to the conclusion that millennials are more liberal than previous generations... You don't think there is some sample bias there? Do you realize that only around 19% of millennials have a college degree?
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Socialism is such a great system that it has to be implemented at gun point.
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Millennials think? (Just kidding.)
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The internet. The great misinformation highway.
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People under 25 shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
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Nope.. we are screwed. The young don't understand, we had a lot of bad things going on when we grew up as well. Actual KKK marches, gas lines, real recession, holy crap un-employment, and actual racial riots. You know what, we all got through it without any social media. Functioning retarded.
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Fuck!
Fuck my generation!
Most of us are so ignorant that a shovel knows more about the Bill of rights or the Constitution!
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Young people don't know what Socialism means
Then gets the definition of socialism wrong -
most of the millennials are going to end up as cucks.
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Millennialis have everything given to them. Money from their parents, entertainment at the click of a button. They're conditioned through socially plugging into the system, they're essentially the Borg with no mind of their own. Only people who are more self aware can unplug.
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God help me and my generation. That's all I can say.
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Millennials are the dumbest people in the world.
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thx socialism.better cuz capitlism and faschist still control facebook nsa and taxes etc. i want to work for a company for the better of country not a single owner who.is corrupt and recieves bail outs
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Hello to my POLI class I have no idea what to answer to my homework does anyone know what
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average millennial: UM I A THINK THAT SOCILUSM IS COOL AND IT MEANS WEN GOVERNMENT ARE SOCIAL AND TALKING TOGUTHER AND STUFF.....SELFIEEEE(takes picture)
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This video and channel are so anti socialism and have a strong economic conservative slant. Socialism isn't about giving the govt so much power that it can control amazon and uber-- why would it even want that? We live in a democracy and that'll never happen. My family is from the ussr. we had socialism there. a job was a right and there was no unemployment and no companies exploiting workers bc the gov't actually took care of the people. I am socially conservative and economically leftist.
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Millenials think socialism is free shit and freedom from government lol
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