Recent Politics

Millennial Makeover talks a lot about the upcoming election (because the book is so recent) and also the "Millennials" response to it. Most people on UMBC and indeed, on most college campuses around the country are predominantly Democrats. For me there is an overwhelming feeling that most people think I am stupid for my views and that I am in some way regressive in my political philosophies. Here's the thing, both Obama and Mc Cain are not Millennials in their ideals nor in their generational stance. The funny thing is that the upcoming voters in a generation will always have to vote for the previous generations ideals, or the generation before that (in the case of McCain and Biden). This seems almost unfair, and seems to be a horrible regression. In current law a presidential hopeful must be at least 33...no WONDER young people don't feel the strong urge to vote all the time. I'm not saying that this is a wrong law, but what I am saying is that it is unreasonable for young people to be able to change what they want to change when it is always an older generation running everything. Seems wrong to just say that generations are fighting...or have tension when really I think the fact that Baby Boomers are predominantly our parents and even grandparents makes up for the fact that the generations perhaps don't see eye to eye. If I could call our generation something it would probably be Millenials as the author calls us or maybe Y2Kers...ahah!!!