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RUSH: You know, we had a story, was it earlier this week or late last week? Might have been both. It was a story on Millennials and a popular misconception about them. I think it was earlier this week, might have been Monday. You know, for the longest time here, couple of years, the analysis of Millennials has been that they don\u2019t want to own anything, that they are really and truly a genuinely different generation. They don\u2019t want to own a car. They\u2019re really not interested in cars, not like other generations have been. They don\u2019t want to own homes or condominiums. They\u2019re into the sharing community and renting and so forth.<\/p>\n

It was presented to us in such a way that we were to think that these Millennials were entirely different cultural group of people and that it was unique in the sense that every prior generation, American dream, was to find is home ownership. Here comes a whole generation that\u2019s pooh-poohing that. And every prior generation has always had its share of people that are car crazy. And here comes a generation that couldn\u2019t care less about either of those, and they really don\u2019t want to own anything.<\/p>\n

They want to be getting around on mass transit or bicycles. They don\u2019t want to plant roots anywhere. Their favorite thing in the world is Uber. And then we had a story, the contradictory story was Monday or Tuesday, that that was all wrong. That actually these Millennials are no different than any other generation. It was BS. The fact is they can\u2019t afford cars because of the economy. They can\u2019t afford to buy homes. Everything\u2019s out of their reach in terms of ownership. They can\u2019t get approved for loans. They\u2019ve all got such student loan debt, or many of them, that owning anything is out of the question.<\/line><\/p>\n

So it was largely a cover sentiment that was created by the left and the media to try to cast these Millennials as an entirely new group of people, anti-capitalists. That was what they were trying to make them out to be. Anti-traditional capitalist, anti-traditional America, pro-progressive, all this new stuff that was so foreign to everybody else, and they were so therefore light years ahead of us. They were a much cleaner people, a much better people, blah, blah, blah. It turns out all that\u2019s smoke and mirrors. And it was all based on the fact that they can\u2019t afford any of this stuff because of the Obama economy.<\/p>\n

The difference is the Millennials themselves do not blame Obama. They don\u2019t blame the government. They just think the country\u2019s best days are behind it. They just think it is the luck of the draw. They just happened to have been born when America starts its inevitable decline because nothing can stay a superpower forever. They do not associate this decline and this malignant economy, stagnant economy with any government policy.<\/p>\n

Well, now there\u2019s an addendum to this, and this story is at Town Hall. It\u2019s a column by Matt Vespa based on research that the Millennials are not nearly as monolithic as has been thought, and in fact younger Millennials, those between 18 and 20 are not nearly as liberal as older Millennials. <\/line>The older Millennials we\u2019re talking about are the ones that eschewed ownership, had no interest in cars, didn\u2019t want to own a house, we were told, all this is BS. It was just the fact they couldn\u2019t afford it, they didn\u2019t have the money for it, they didn\u2019t have the jobs, there wasn\u2019t any job prospects. Look at housing prices where most of the country is just out of reach, even starter homes out of reach. So a lie was concocted. Well, they don\u2019t care anyway. They want to rent, sharing economy. These are much more communal people.<\/line><\/p>\n

It was an idea to try to present this generation as light years ahead of us intellectually, emotionally, much more well-adjusted, much more anti-capitalist, didn\u2019t care about money. Turns out it was all a crock. And now we find out “Once Millennials get a job and start making between $40k-60k a year support for income redistribution, and other liberal policies related to fiscal policy, drops precipitously.”<\/p>\n

“A Harvard Institute of Politics poll found something a bit interesting regarding Millennial voting patterns; younger ones aren\u2019t as liberal.” Younger Millennials “aren\u2019t as left leaning grew up in a different time, post-9\/11 and in the midst of a major recession. Yet, once Millennials get a job and start making between $40k-60k a year –” that\u2019s when they start, like everybody does, keeping more of what they earn, rather than being forced to give it away. And that attitude prevails on a number of other liberal policies. The bottom line is Millennials aren\u2019t nearly as liberal when they start making money, and they\u2019re not nearly as liberal as we\u2019ve been told that they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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