Can Millennials Save the Democratic Party?

[LeviF]

Millennials will not "save" the Democratic party, at least in its current iteration. Millennials are much more likely to end up splitting the Democratic party, if only for a time.

 

Or the socialist millenials will all just register Green party instead.

[Cinga]

 

Unless one gets enough power to outlaw the other.

That won't happen for at least another 2 years... The Democrats are not powerful enough now to do that....

[GoBills808]

Millennials will not "save" the Democratic party, at least in its current iteration. Millennials are much more likely to end up splitting the Democratic party, if only for a time.

 

Or the socialist millenials will all just register Green party instead.

The Democrats are intent on going down with the ship, judging by their election of Perez as chair.

[KD in CA]

Millennials will not "save" the Democratic party, at least in its current iteration. Millennials are much more likely to end up splitting the Democratic party, if only for a time.

 

Or the socialist millenials will all just register Green party instead.

 

You mean they're all not going to unite around Joe Biden or another 80 year old white guy?

[keepthefaith]

When they look at those tax rates which decade will they be harkening back to?

Agree that federal taxation at middle class income levels and below is pretty low right now. The whole story though is the portion of the paycheck that goes to fed taxes, state taxes, health care and insurance costs, student loan debt (if they could afford to go to college), rent and car insurance. Several of these have risen faster than the rate of inflation and faster than wages which leave people with less money to spend on other things.

 

That and hardly a payday goes by when you look at what is taken out of checks in taxes and also constantly hear that states are broke, the fed government has racked up a huge debt and that SS and medicare are grossly underfunded.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Unintentionally funny story (and picture):

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/05/18/hopes-dreams-debt/fR60cKakwUlGok0jTlONTN/story.html

 

So here's a long, long story regarding millennials and their student debt.

 

And the primary focus of the story is on the three women at the top of the page (look at the photo closely) who all have lots of debt and are all "struggling financially" and all live together "barely about the poverty line".

 

OTOH, even though they say they are :struggling", they do manage to have one very high-end liquor cabinet.

[Nanker]

Unintentionally funny story (and picture):

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/05/18/hopes-dreams-debt/fR60cKakwUlGok0jTlONTN/story.html

 

So here's a long, long story regarding millennials and their student debt.

 

And the primary focus of the story is on the three women at the top of the page (look at the photo closely) who all have lots of debt and are all "struggling financially" and all live together "barely about the poverty line".

 

OTOH, even though they say they are :struggling", they do manage to have one very high-end liquor cabinet.

Shows they've at least some of their priorities in the right order.

[Beef Jerky]

Why would anyone want to save the Democratic or Republican parties? They are both disasters.

[Rob's House]

Are the millenials the first generation to be made fun of by their parents' generation for being pussies?

[Doc Brown]

This is an interesting pew article http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016 showingwhat party millenials (age 18-35) identify with as white millenials are pretty even in party affiliation or whether they lean left or right is at 47% for both parties. However, non white millenials lean Democratic at 73% compared to Republicans at 19%. Democrats imo have put their long term strategy in playing identity politics to cater to minorities as they know that group will only increase. However, they lost many white blue collar workers because of this as white people who don't go to college have gravitated more towards the Republican party from 41% in '92 to 59% today. However, white college graduates moved towards the Democratic party to 48% today compared with 41% in '92. The parties have somewhat flipped their base when it comes to white voters based on education level. I just find all this interesting. I'm guessing in 2020 it's going to be really close again.