Millennial spitballing here.
Maybe after living through three recessions, millennials aren't, to use a South Park-ism, super stoked on defaulting on the national debt.
Maybe, having lived through the first attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, a resurgence of Russian imperialism and a land war in Europe, and seeing murdered Ukrain…
Maybe after living through three recessions, millennials aren't, to use a South Park-ism, super stoked on defaulting on the national debt.
Maybe, having lived through the first attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, a resurgence of Russian imperialism and a land war in Europe, and seeing murdered Ukrainian kids in our Twitter and Reddit feeds, we don't want to elect someone who tells our democratic allies to pound sand.
Maybe, after losing two years of of social lives and our families' lives (missing travel, weddings, funerals, baptisms, graduations, having babies in lockdown and cancelling children's birthday parties), we don't want to vote for an anti-science party that dragged the pandemic out for an extra year.
Maybe, we want to raise families in towns with safe roads, decent schools, and clean air and water, and we are tired of our statehouses prioritizing heartbeat bills, anti-CRT bills, and a smorgasbord of performative jackassery over our most basic needs.
I don't need to hear some Republican spout platitudes about diversity to win my vote. Diversity is a fact for my generation. You might as well say "golly, isn't great that the sky is blue and the grass is green". I want them to govern! And I don't see that happening. That's why Millennials aren't going to vote Republican. Because they don't trust the Republican party to address any of the things that actually matter to them (spoiler alert...they aren't going to). Also, the Republican party has no chance of becoming competent at governing, because young people who WANT to get stuff done run as Dems. That's why Democrats have an up and coming generation of millennial leadership, and the Republicans have George(?) Santos(?).
JVL, Charlie, if you guys are following this thread, if you aren't actively considering offering Maggie a job, even as a freelancer, you are being remiss in your duties to your readers.
Maggie, vintage 1946 Boomer, Nam vet (former Republican turned Dem, thanks to Richard Nixon's lies about the Cambodian incursion) here. This is one of -maybe the absolute best- comments I've read since I joined The Bulwark. Neil Young described you to a "T": You are Rockin' in the Free World.
You are too kind, but thank you for everything. I'm underemployed at the moment with too much time on my hands, and I really appreciate how kind the feedback has been on this and I'm glad it resonated with people.
Por Nada, Maggie. Por Nada. I'm obviously not the only one who feels this way. Keep it up. I'll be looking for your input and I hope JVL and Charlie take me up on my challenge.
As of the weekend I'm a Board Certified Preventative Medicine doctor, but I'm still waiting for my state to process a medical license and the feds to give me a DEA number, so I'll be around. And then I'll start working 4 days a week and I'll be around on Tuesdays. I'm still trying to work out what to do with that Tuesday though. I've thought of volunteering, I have a neighbor needling me to run for the county school board, but it also occurred to me to start writing in some capacity.
Anton Chekhov said “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.”
Congratulations, Doc!!! I was a medic in Nam, became an RN 20-some years after that and worked nearly 20 years in the ER in a small city north of Dallas, followed by 7 years at a community-owned non-profit hospice. My wife was an FNP, having to go on disability at age 60 due to a still-undetermined form of Parkinsonism. So now, I'm chief cook, bottle-washer, and general all-around wiseacre. I used to comment prolifically on the NYT, but the gray lady's panties kept getting wadded up tighter and tighter, and stayed that way, so a lot of what I submitted never saw print, and that was a lot more watered down than what The Bulwark lets me get away with.
Well done! They are trying to sell and old, worn out product to a generation that just ain't buying... You see right through them - and they continue to underestimate your generation.
Millennial spitballing here.
Maybe after living through three recessions, millennials aren't, to use a South Park-ism, super stoked on defaulting on the national debt.
Maybe, having lived through the first attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, a resurgence of Russian imperialism and a land war in Europe, and seeing murdered Ukrainian kids in our Twitter and Reddit feeds, we don't want to elect someone who tells our democratic allies to pound sand.
Maybe, after losing two years of of social lives and our families' lives (missing travel, weddings, funerals, baptisms, graduations, having babies in lockdown and cancelling children's birthday parties), we don't want to vote for an anti-science party that dragged the pandemic out for an extra year.
Maybe, we want to raise families in towns with safe roads, decent schools, and clean air and water, and we are tired of our statehouses prioritizing heartbeat bills, anti-CRT bills, and a smorgasbord of performative jackassery over our most basic needs.
I don't need to hear some Republican spout platitudes about diversity to win my vote. Diversity is a fact for my generation. You might as well say "golly, isn't great that the sky is blue and the grass is green". I want them to govern! And I don't see that happening. That's why Millennials aren't going to vote Republican. Because they don't trust the Republican party to address any of the things that actually matter to them (spoiler alert...they aren't going to). Also, the Republican party has no chance of becoming competent at governing, because young people who WANT to get stuff done run as Dems. That's why Democrats have an up and coming generation of millennial leadership, and the Republicans have George(?) Santos(?).
Maggie,
Maybe, as a reader, I appreciate you putting my words on 'paper' better than I could ever conceive of.
Maybe you spoke truth.
Maybe you put both of our hearts out there for the world to witness.
Thanks mama, this is excellent. Be proud today and walk taller.
Amen!
So..... millennials are pretty much like the rest of America....? Cool!
Thank you for your comments. Wholeheartedly agree
As a Gen X representative, I concur with these remarks...and I add "WERK!!"
JVL, Charlie, if you guys are following this thread, if you aren't actively considering offering Maggie a job, even as a freelancer, you are being remiss in your duties to your readers.
Maggie, vintage 1946 Boomer, Nam vet (former Republican turned Dem, thanks to Richard Nixon's lies about the Cambodian incursion) here. This is one of -maybe the absolute best- comments I've read since I joined The Bulwark. Neil Young described you to a "T": You are Rockin' in the Free World.
You are too kind, but thank you for everything. I'm underemployed at the moment with too much time on my hands, and I really appreciate how kind the feedback has been on this and I'm glad it resonated with people.
Por Nada, Maggie. Por Nada. I'm obviously not the only one who feels this way. Keep it up. I'll be looking for your input and I hope JVL and Charlie take me up on my challenge.
As of the weekend I'm a Board Certified Preventative Medicine doctor, but I'm still waiting for my state to process a medical license and the feds to give me a DEA number, so I'll be around. And then I'll start working 4 days a week and I'll be around on Tuesdays. I'm still trying to work out what to do with that Tuesday though. I've thought of volunteering, I have a neighbor needling me to run for the county school board, but it also occurred to me to start writing in some capacity.
Anton Chekhov said “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.”
Congratulations, Doc!!! I was a medic in Nam, became an RN 20-some years after that and worked nearly 20 years in the ER in a small city north of Dallas, followed by 7 years at a community-owned non-profit hospice. My wife was an FNP, having to go on disability at age 60 due to a still-undetermined form of Parkinsonism. So now, I'm chief cook, bottle-washer, and general all-around wiseacre. I used to comment prolifically on the NYT, but the gray lady's panties kept getting wadded up tighter and tighter, and stayed that way, so a lot of what I submitted never saw print, and that was a lot more watered down than what The Bulwark lets me get away with.
Brilliant! Thank you. I say this as an aging member of the Silent Generation.
Well said!!
Bravo Maggie, well said.
Brava.
Excellent, Maggie!! "Diversity is a fact", get over it. Start getting things done.
Maggie - might I just add to your comment my reaction when I read it?:
"Yaaaaaaaay!"
I couldn’t agree with your sentiments Maggie, well said !
Very eloquently said. My son (a fellow Millennial) has been saying the same thing. I may be a Boomer but I'm on Team Millennial in this assessment.
Way to cut through all the noise Maggie - top ten Bulwark post.
Well done! They are trying to sell and old, worn out product to a generation that just ain't buying... You see right through them - and they continue to underestimate your generation.