Millennials… *Sigh* Where Do We Begin?
Millennials include vast numbers of collegiates who were taught to be anti-white, anti-God, anti-capitalist, anti-male, and pro-socialist. They’re wrong, but how do you reach them?
Millennials are currently known as the young, clueless, rude college students who riot for causes they don’t understand, spew obscene words at anyone who won’t listen to them, and promote the same type of government that caused millions of deaths in Germany and Russia. Ranging in age from 20 to 35 years old (depending on what source you read), they will be the largest voting bloc in the 2020 election. This leaves many of us (myself included), scratching our heads, asking “How do we turn them around?” The answer, my friends, is awareness and education — not just for them, but for ourselves as well.
Katie Petrick, fellow Millennial and host of Healthy Republic on Freedom Project Media, recently gave a presentation entitled “Minding Millennials” to a mostly Baby Boomer crowd at a local restaurant. In it, she explained why Millennials are the way we are, and how the older generations can connect with us.
The first part of understanding this generation is understanding the culture we grew up in. For that, Katie breaks it down into two sections — before and after the Internet. Those born in the ’80s (such as Katie and myself) remember life before the Internet entered our homes. We remember playing outside. We remember using a card catalog and encyclopedia to do book reports in grade school. We remember passing notes and writing letters to our friends and talking on a landline. Those born in the ’90s are totally different. They never knew life without computers or without the Internet. They were introduced to the web at a very young age, received cellphones at a young age, and have always been surrounded by social media in one form or another (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Another major event Katie cites is 9/11. We “older” Millennials, as Katie calls us, remember exactly where we were when the planes crashed into the Twin Towers, and we understood the gravity of the situation. For the “younger” Millennials, they recall this simply as something bad that happened, much like some Baby Boomers remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, while others just know it happened.
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