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"It Finally Happened": Millennials Surpass Boomers As Largest Share Of US Voters
We’ve written quite a bit this year about the pitiable plight of millennials.
Weighed down by a $1.3 trillion mountain of student debt, a labor market that churns out waiters and bartenders at the expense of breadwinner jobs, an inexorable increase in the cost of housing, and an economic "recovery" that never really materialized, more and more young Americans are becoming disillusioned with the “American Dream.”
Indeed nearly a third of those aged 18-35 now say the “American Dream” is “not alive”...
...while 31.5% of Americans in the same age group now live back at home with their parents.

Against that rather dismal backdrop, Bloomberg reports that millennials have now surpassed baby boomers as the largest share of the U.S.'s voting-age population.
“The U.S. now has 88 million millennials, people born 1981 to 2000,” Zara Kessler writes. “This generation has tremendous political clout: Three of 10 voting-age Americans are millennials, and more members of the generation reach voting age each day.”
Here are some images and color from Bloomberg’s millennials infographic:
The millennial generation is already the largest in the U.S. No new millennials are being born — but the generation continues to grow because of immigration.
About 15 percent of young adults are foreign born.
More than older Americans, millennials resist identifying with political parties.
The generation leans strongly Democratic but on the issues, millennials aren’t predictably liberal. On marijuana legalization and same-sex marriage, they're left of center. They've shifted right on gun policy.
There's quite a bit more in the full infographic (which you're encouraged to review) including a discussion of millennials and Obamacare, but this seems to be Bloomberg's point: "A by-the-numbers look shows a generation poised to take over [and] politicians ignore millennials at their peril."
"They will form the largest share of the voting-age population for decades, beginning this year [and] they have the power to swing the presidential election by turning out to vote — or crush a candidate by staying home," Kessler goes on to declare.
We're note sure if Bloomberg was trying to make a point here or not in the wake of Trump's Muslim decree, but it's worth asking whether the fact that the largest share of the voting age population generally leans Democrat and 15% of those voters are foreign born might spell trouble ahead for the Teflon Don. As usual, we'll leave it to readers to discuss.
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This is why Trudeau won.
They already gave us Obama.. what more damage could they do?
Yes we can.
You mean the boomers gave us Dear Leader. they bought into the greater good deades ago. The young are just useful idiots... Until now
I find it amusing how folks try to blame the world going to hell on people who've been old enough to vote in only a few presidential elections, as though everything that happened during the previous 40+ years was just peachy keen and has nothing to do with us being neck-deep in shit.
Exactly, now that the boomers are retiring, it's going to be up to the Millennials to fix this shit show (while supporting the boomers who are on social security and other social welfare system, where the fuck were you boomers when this was taking place? Why did you object in mass?). Although, I am against pointing fingers at any demographic group. We have all been lied to and cheated, rather than playing the blame game how about we all join and fight the true culprits. Rather than falling into the divisive trap
The millenials love Bernie.
They love the possibility of student loan forgiveness, which will happen regardless when dollar goes *boom*.
High school politics, Bernie and Trump will promise whatever it takes to get elected.
Free pizza Fridays and a 2 liter of Brawndo!!!
A higher percentage of Boomers will be actually voting and more politically active for the next decade or two.
Thank God the millennials are the majority voters now.
We can blame everything that goes wrong going forward on them.
If you try to fix US gov then the terrorists have won.
There is no Fixing the governement. For me it start at the monetary level: once you have abolished the FED and introduced sound monetary system, tackling the central government will be lot easier. There is no simple solutions.
Something tells me that Medicare and SS won't be around much longer with this crew running things.
We (boomers) had about as much power to change this fixed shit-show as you do now (Hint: none).
so voting matters, ha good luck millenials, fucking have a education ahead of hope-vote-realize the game if fucking rigged and you are fucked. vote for whomever-lol...
"We (boomers) had about as much power to change this fixed shit-show as you do now (Hint: none)."
Dont be ridiculous. Not only did you have a disproportionately high percentage of voting power (lower starting pop, dead parents, and tons of you), you also were the most cohesive, like-minded generation in American history. That voting power was used to put 40 years of reckless spending and debt, no-child-left-behind education system/indoctrination camps, expansion of administrative power, and a paramilitary police force in place between us and the democratic-republic process.
You can argue that you didnt have a lot of power to change things but it is a flat out lie to even attempt to make the comparison to the millenial's voting power. That argument would still be lacking because you obviously had the power to make the changes above. I welcome you to demonstrate that a meaningful portion of boomers are opposed to social security!
We (boomers) had about as much power to change this fixed shit-show as you do now (Hint: none).
30% of the voters will vote for the Democrat even if he has no valid birth certificate..
30% of the voters will vote for the Republican even if he just got out of jail for fraud
Let me tell you.. the middle that swung the Fraud-in Chief into office were all young and plugged into his Internet presence.
“In 1923 the “Wall Street Journal” credited King Oscar II of Sweden with a version of the remark using the word “socialist” instead of “républicain” or “republican”. The quote appeared as a freestanding short item under the title: “The truth in its proper use”:” 5
“A man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head.”—King Oscar II of Sweden
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
I never understood that part.
<<A man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart.>>
Can somebody explain?
Coveting another's wealth under the pretense of being generous with said stolen wealth towards others means that you're a kind person.
Statisticaly, they are more libertarian... Fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
That said, it was just as much GenX and Boomers that got him in...keep in mind, its millennials that have been getting screwed just as hard by the Obama economy.
Except for the 40% who think that censorship is good if the speech offends minorities.
You might want to consider that Trump will steal a ton of Democrats.. the ones who are afraid that this country is being overrun by people that do not share traditional American values (as it actually is) and are angry at the entire DC establishment that is responsible.
Fear and anger at what is happening.. he is pushing those buttons.
The best thing to hope for is a Trump in charge and the most frequently uttered two words in DC are “you’re fired!”.
Last time I remember, millennial voted for ron paul (thats why he has largest young voters turn around) and stupid boomers, gen x voted for hope and change. Dumb asses S
You can thank FOX news for anti-Ron Paul propaganda, I remember my dad thought I was nuts when I voted for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPouHwIQmHI
"stupid boomers, gen x voted for hope and change"
You sure about that? Anyhow, not this Gen X'er. I still have two Ron Paul hoodies from the campaign. Love my hoodies. Everytime I wear one of them someone thanks me for actuallly thinking. I tell you, it's not hopeless (yet).
The only way for us to win the "rigged voting paradigm" is to NOT participate...
We are truely fucked now. Might as well bring in the anti-christ, these mellennial freaks are going to bow down to that scum. Mellennials, the worst generation ever. BTW, I'm 37 so stop with the "you're old" excuses. I've seen these freaks in action. No work ethic, even if the "men" aren't gay they are effeminate pussies, obsessed with "tech", super duber uber debt slaves, don't want to pay back debts THEY took out (no one forced them at gun point, sorry) and they want to restrict my rights and liberty. No, screw you assholes. I don't think so.
No worries. From what I'm seeing so far the next batch of voters are just as eager to screw the next generation with moar debt as the last batch.
My parent's generation had to deal with the Great Depression and WWII. I grew up having to deal with TV, affordable college and Boy Bands. Each generation must squarely face the horrors which confront it.
"My parent's (parents'?) generation had to deal with the Great Depression and WWII." That generation included my parents too. As I kept telling my father in his waning years, they survived all that and went on to raise the most spoiled generation ever (boomers; mine), who in turn forgot how to turn their own children into intelligent, functioning adults. So let's not try blaming any one generation, just recognize that the US has been going downhill since the advent of public (mis)education and progressivism in general. Each generation got a little bit worse, and now we're all up the creek without a proverbial paddle and have lost the skills and knowledge needed to fashion a new one.
Amen.
John Taylor Gatto nails it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UadPqGscfI
You mean when America stepped away from personal responsiblity and adopted the nanny state, right?
Well fortunately the article dealt with voting age. They have to register before they can vote on November 20 2016 ;-)
Depends on where you draw the lines doesn't it? According to vital stats, Gen X is the largest whether you use 1961-81 or 1965-84.
It's all bullshit anyway.
voters, that's a laugher.
When citizens were relabeled as consumers, it was over.
Hopefully this signals the death knell of the war on drugs. Nobody is more ignorant of or more easily terrorized by non-pharma pharmaceuticals than the Boomers.
I don’t know about that...
If You’re Going To San Francisco..
We Do Our Balling In The Bathroom..
Up Against the Wall MF
and.. So Long Marianne and Sweet Jane...
time to go listen to Master Song.
Their god Bernie said people who sell tobacco are worse than heroin dealers and smokers are just junkies hooked on smack!
Go inhale some history. "Reefer Madness" came out way before boomers created the 'sex, drugs and rock and roll' meme.
Cool. I'll be retiring soon in my house, not my parents basement.
ill retire when im dead
:)
just remember to keep voting.
The ways things are headed, most of us are going to retire when we drop dead.
Tumblr has taken over politics.
Time to raise the voting age to 26 when they're off mommy and daddies insurance!
If they're old enough to be drafted, they're old enough to vote (and buy alcohol, in my opinion).
Yep, and they're old enough to buy a piece if ass too.
And if they are not old enough to buy alcohol or not old enough to vote, they certainly are not old enough to be drafted or enlist. Make a choice - they're either adults or they're kids.
they arent mature enough to make decisions that may affect their health
yet old enough for the government to send them to "see the world"
And they're old enough to take out $100K in student loans on a worthless degree but not old enough to have a sip of beer. Our country is whacked!!!
if they are in college they are having a bit more that a sip of beer.
Dont forget though - mommy and daddy want their little angel to go college.
From what I hear they're all Smoking Poles now!
My millenial kids and their friends are very suspicious of all politicians and people who vote. About the only thing that would get them to the polls is the option to opt out of SS and all that other shit they never agreed to.
good job.
Most millenials I know dont care about... well anything important.
Thanks, by far our best achievement, it really takes two with a lot of head-butting along the way. The great thing is...they still like us! It's kinda of sad but both of them have made the decision to never have kids. That's tough but hard to argue with them.
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I had a vasectomy on my 18th birthday.
Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but they have a shit world to try to navigate in and I worry about it. A lot.
Don't. They'll have the opportunity to be smarter than you ever were, just because as a population we've learned a lot more about the corruption of those who rule us since then. They didn't come into the world to sit on their cans, and they won't have to. There's going to be lots of really useful work for them to do, unlike those of us who were told that our prime purpose in life was to Shop.
Amen. Preach it!
I find it highly disappointing when I read ZHers discourage folks from having kids. I think the opposite. I think ZHers should out-breed the rest of the population.
I have kids. I want my sons to meet sane young women.
Zhers are going to out-breed 1.3 billion Chinese after China just reformed the one-child policy to a two-child policy? ; )
RUSH / Presto / War Paint - 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvLos5-pDtY
RUSH / Snakes And Arrows / Far Cry - 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OlU0JbOALU
Oh! and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention RUSH (again. LOL) opened in Toronto 17JUN15 with The Anarchist.
Humourous is that numerous Americans consider still that votery is somehow relevant, mattering.
Going more and more a society of fantasy. In order to conciliate various fragments of reality, people use fantasy.
Participation at voting charade an effort to hold reality at bay, a ritual helping concretise dearly held fantasy of influence and control.
In NY (where I used to live), it's 30. Truly pathetic.
The virtue of each generation appears to be inversely proportional to its size. The age of great engineering works was pre-boomer, and the age of the development of the Internet was Gen-X. The boomers brought social chaos and the Millenials are bringing moral chaos (thanks to the teachings they absorbed from the boomers).
Very interesting that Gen X is really the only one that never had or will have a chance to be the largest at any point. By the time they exceed the dying-off Boomers, the two generations after them will both have been much larger for a decade.
Why do you think Gen X is small in size?
Gen X is small in size because their parents had concerns about overpopulation in the 60's and 70's.
This was before Neo-Keynesian economics figured out you could have a roaring good time for 50 years if you destroy the planet and starting bribing the rest of the planet with fiat.
Roe v. Wade
Here come's Bernie.
*co'mes
how about this one?
"A new study from Junior Achievement USA and PwC US conducted by Ypulse finds that 24% of millennials think their student loans will be forgiven."
how many of you thought your mortgage debt would be forgiven?
I started shoveling snow for cash at age 6 with my older brother and was cutting neighbors grass at 10. Was a stock boy at the liqour store at 14 and started paying into social security at 15. Some of my friends kids are in their 20's without ever working a real job. THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED!!!
yea but at that age were you talented at the internets?
3 year olds can do anything on a ipad now. Not sure how that helps yet.
You are generalizing. As a millenial, here were my duties while my folks were at work. Bring home straight A's, make your own lunch, wash the dishes, clean the house after homework. Had close friends who were in the same boat, however, there were schoolmates who were complete filths.
I imagine you didn't a) ask for $20 to shovel 20 square feet like the kids in my town did three years ago; b) ask for 5% of a homeowner's week's take-home pay to mow the lawn, same location, and you could hardly get a job working with ALCOHOL while UNDERAGE any time in the last 20 years.
The world has changed. Millenials can't get paid a decent wage for childhood labor because the people who used to hire them haven't got the money; they can't get a "real" job until they're nearly out of high school, and you probably got paid effectively more to stock shelves at 14 than most college kids six years older, stronger, and less ignorant get paid at their waiter/waitress jobs. But don't blame the victims for a rotten economy.
You're right on the basic point, though: this country is indeed FUCKED.
Now we are officially proper fucked! Whoever is last out, turn off the lights and flip the sign to Aladeen.
Interesting that this demographic change is happening at a time when Millennials are just now realizing their vote for Obama might have been the worst mistake of their life - one they will be paying the price for for decades to come.
Blacks showed up to vote for their homeboy (all else be damned)
They won't do the same for hitlery
out of the frying pan, into the fire
And they want to ban free speech. I can't wait to shoot me a little wussie boy!
You are eager to commit murder? Please seek psychiatic attention immediately. Step away from your arsenal and your pipe bombs.
If fighting in a Cival War is murder than yes!
You want to ban free speech then I will cut out your fucking tongue. Moonmac's Law!
Bub bye, age of old white men. The new guys can't possibly fuck it up as much as we did.
Oh, you don't give the 'other than old white men' group enough credit. They'll fuck things up even worse, you'll see.
Hey...FUCK Y'ALL...I did not do SHIT to fuck things up.
I don't live off the government. I work. I pay taxes. I am charitable. I contribute.
Yeah...I'm white. I'm a "boomer". And I have been this outspoken, railing against this shit show for DECADES.
I rip Fuckbama on here, and in person - face to face. NO difference. You get both barrels from me if you spout off stupid shit in person.
BUT...I have ripped Bush, Clinton, Poppy, Raygun, Carter.....fuck.....you name the politician (although, Tulsi Gabbard has my attention - smart, courageous woman).
THE SYSTEM WAS FUCKED UP BY BANKERS, ZIONIST CUNTS, THE ELITIST SWINE RUNNING THE M.I.C., AND THE CABAL OF CAREER POLITICIANS WHO CONTROL THE MEDIA - ALL RUN BY THE MOB AND THE BANKERS....
Quit fucking generalizing. Be specific you tools. Not ALL people are bad.
I'm sure the brown men replacements will do much better.
I demand all polling places be made Safe Spaces so the kids can come out of the basements and dorms to vote.
Perfect. One day after we find out US Millenials are the most ignorant in the world.
Idiocracy!
"U.S. millennials did not score higher than those in any of the PIAAC participating countries. The very youngest of this cohort (16- to 24-year-olds), who could be in the labor force until at least 2065, ranked dead last in numeracy and among the bottom in PS-TRE. These data reveal that a relatively large percentage of our young adults cannot perform literacy tasks that ask them to “identify, interpret, or evaluate one or more pieces of information and often require varying levels of inferencing,” or numeracy tasks that “require several steps and may involve the choice of problem solving strategies or relevant information.”
WOW.
These tests are somewhat skewed. ALL American students take them, while in most other countries, only students on the "academic" track (i.e., from the middle-class and above) take them. So they compare the average American, including all of the "special ed" children kept in regular schools by ADA legislation, against the top 50% of other countries like Singapore, India, and Malaysia. Only a few European countries test across the board like we do, and historically, those are countries with small class distinctions and no major enclaves of underprivileged children and ethnicities that don't speak the national language at home.
Break it down by race and then we'll talk. Why beat around the bush?
One of the most forward thinking movies of our time. But it drags after they exit the Costco.
the foreign born isn't too cut and dried. I'm gen x and my kids were born in Europe so they were listed as foreign born on the 2010 census. and no they are not even near democrat. Patrick Henry and Rothbard all the way.
What I don’t understand about this generation is why none of my 40-50 close male friends that I grew up with turned into queers?
Out of 40-50 guys, there are probably 1 or 2 gays in the group, they just keep it on the down-low.
The difference is that there's just not as much social stigma to being gay as there was even 20 years ago, which is a good thing. Personally, I don't wanna hear about it all of the time, but I think 'live and let live' is a good policy.
2-3 percent of the population is LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ
It's not as prevalent as the media would have you believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States
They'll tell you that they are just in denial.
How do you tell if your best friend is gay?
The Millennials having grown up in a world of LIES, BIG LIES are learning through hard reality that things aren't as PRESENTED.
So they are leaning right on Gun Control, meaning for 2nd Amendment. That won't last as the article states this is a growing generation, through IMMIGRATION.
And the reason for the sad state of the Ms IS immigration.
ALL job growth since 2000 was taken by immigrants:
http://cis.org/all-employment-growth-since-2000-went-to-immigrants
"Obamacare"
The 1965 Immigration Act killed America, the people had no idea.
Obamacare is yet ANOTHER wealth transfer from US, the White populace, to the people of color. At the same time .gov is, effectively, killing off the Golden Goose, i.e. White America. I tell you there is a METHOD to their MADNESS.
"They've shifted right on gun policy."
The NRA will fall. It’s inevitable. Just look at the demographics. The Washington Post, October 19, 2015
by Adam Winkler professor at UCLA School of Law
See also:
Jews and Jewish organizations lead the gun control campaign by Professor Kevin MacDonald
Jews and Gun Control: A Reprise by Andrew Joyce, PhD
"same-sex marriage, they're left of center."
Of course, how do you think such feelings, beliefs are formed?
The Indoctrination Game, Part 2: Jewish media influence as decisive in creating a positive public culture of homosexuality
Jill Soloway and the "Transgender" Agenda, Part 1
Jill Soloway and the "Transgender" Agenda, Part 2
Jenji Kohan and the Jewish Hyper-Sexualization of Western Culture
Well Laddie, they'd better keep this country from crashing before they seize most of the guns, because I have no doubt that Jews are going to take the brunt of the blame whenever it does. They'll need guns for protection as much or more than any other group.
I just voted today in the Houston mayor election. Thank God our pervert bulldyke mayor is out.
Our choices are a white man with business savvy and a nigger politician.
Who do you think is gonna win?
The nigger
Eligible to vote doesn't mean they actually will vote.
That statistic is a red carpet for people like Bernie Sanders
Millenials would vote the Prince of Darkness (or Hillary) into office if they thought there was some free iCrap in it for them.
When the boat sinks, it will not matter how old you are. We will all drown together.
I'll be looking forward to stepping over the Millennials.
We're doomed.
One caveat -- immigrants have to be in the country for seven years before they can apply for citizenship and vote. So there are a lot of warm bodies of the right age, who have no voting rights.
Sorry Don. You had a good run. Had a lot of good laughs, but I'm afraid it's over bud. If I know one thing about Millenials is that they're hopelessly fucked. The fact that you shoot from the hip and call em like you see em, call a spade a spade and so be it; that's all lost on those fuckers. They rather be lied to by hereditary political royalty who's about to outsource and insource every last remaining job they could ever hope to have to half of Asia and the mideast in the name of the multicultural fairytale. But it won't matter, cause they'll have Miley Cirus twirking while they're playing League of Legends and instagramming eachother from their parent's basements.
LMFAO. Millenials. It's not your fault. Your parents and their parents screwed the pooch. You get stuck holding the bag.
Lord help us when this group starts to take the reins. You think its bad now wait till these spoiled, self-absorbed, instant gratification, I'm always the victim, 8th place trophy receiving folks take over. Then its really game over.
I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with people my age (Gen-X) and older who are scared shitless of that very prospect.
They, TPTB running the show, are the hippies from the 60's & 70's and they have run a muck; the millennials will be no different...they will have a dictator anyway; like we do now; only it will be official.
It doesn't matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.
Yep, and György Schwartz counts the votes. We're FUCKED.
Problem is for the candidates is that Millennials will be too lazy to go vote or can't get a ride from their parents.
Boomers may want to stop laying everyone off... and try to work with some of these younger Americans? The payback could be a real bitch.
In other words, the elecorate is now majority retard on the way to becoming full retard.
that group if they turnout, will sure overturn HRC's plans
It takes a while to realize that voting is an exercise in futility since Presidents are selected, NEVER elected. They go rogue sometimes and the result is always injury or death.
Bring back the draft...