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| I am glad I don't have one of these working for me. |
Case in point: I called one of my millennial activist friends and she said sort of: I am giving up politics for a while. It is making me too stressed. I am concentrating on other things. Not to knock this young woman because she is better than most, but she has just recently been on glorious vacations abroad that you and I might have waited our whole life for. Vacations are suppose to be a stress reliever.
Anyway, I said I understand because I know my stress level with politics, but I really don't understand. This was one of our activists but someone I also know takes a lot of time to have fun. She was someone we could count on from the younger generation. Now she is back to having fun and I guess recycling to clear her conscience. The old bags are back to literally holding the bag. The millennials too easily toss activism to the wind and vacate on stuff they have started. It just ain't fair.
So when people say the millennials will change the fabric of our country, I say: Only if it is their whim at the time, will they vote or volunteer. Totally useless so far to get too much accomplished beyond riding a bike for a cause....
I wouldn't waste my time campaigning to them. They might vote every 4 years in a presidential race, maybe...if it suits them.
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I think many of them won't vote if it isn't Bernie. I love Bernie too, but I have had to hold my nose when voting more times than not. They didn't vote last time because they felt Obama was a sell out to large corporations. They have the misconceived notion that they need to stick up for their principles, no matter what. Even if it gets Trump elected? Look how well things worked out when we lost those extra votes to Ralph Nader. Maybe these people need to earn the right to vote so they can understand the importance.
Actually, these are your children: School them about their damn principles. I have been holding my nose so much there is no skin left.
The only important thing to tell your stupid kids is that two if not more supreme court justices will be a stake in this presidential election. It is bad enough the other branches of government won't function --- we can't afford to lose the supreme court. Tie up your kid and bring them to vote. IT IS THE SUPREMES THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON. I don't care about anything else and you have to knock that into your kid's head.
I do have one working for me. It is Focus Focus Focus all the time.
Please stopping looking at your personal cell phone is my mantra.
Evolution has a purpose and result.
I can't keep my hired mil off the games while working. He doesn't seem to be have any fear of authority. Or he doesn't give a shit. And he wants a raise. Grrrr.
A sign of maturity is staying power after all...
I cringe thinking of the millennials now running for office.
The comments are accurate. My experience with millienials is they are useless. All ego. No follow through. They appear to hate everyone over 40. All immediate gratification. Look at the young staffs of Keon Hardemon, Ken Russell and Marco Rubio. All arrogance with no experience. Unqualified. Useless.
They are obnoxious. Most have a massive sense of entitlement. No depth.
I teach millennials at FIU. Most of them hold down outside jobs while taking a full schedule of classes and trying to find a place for themselves in the world. Overhearing their conversations this past spring term, I found my students surprisingly sophisticated in their understanding of presidential politics. I love them, despite their mobile phones.
To the reader who humorously commented "evolution has a purpose and a result", I'd say right about "result" and wrong about"purpose". Evolution has mechanism and consequence, but, alas, no purpose. To bring it back home, human brain size has been shrinking over our recent evolutionary history, while our most striking evolutionary changes have been in the genes that direct our immune responses. Meanwhile, mobile phones, unlike our brains, are getting larger. It's hard to imagine giant mobile phones favoring a reproductive advantage for those of larger than average brain size.
They are too busy being hipsters to be effective. Waste of time,
We sound like our parents in 1971...........
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journalist-joins-a-start-up-finds-its-part-frat-part-cult
Laid-Off Tech Journalist Joins A Start-Up, Finds It's Part Frat, Part Cult
34 minute interview with Terry Gross on NPR. This 53 year old goes to work with Millenials. Nails their fake culture.
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