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DemocraticSocialist8

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5. Yea this idea that Millennials are somehow smarter than their parents/grandparents is bunk

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Mar 12, 2017, 12:15 PM

Mar 2017

Millennials can be driven to believe in a lot of the same stupid ideas that their parents and grandparents believed. It really proves the saying true of the apple not falling too far from the tree.

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The millennial surge fueling Europe's right-wing populism [View all] brooklynite Mar 2017 OP

"but unlike Bernie Sanders supporters in the United States..." EL34x4 Mar 2017 #1

You're right. It shouldn't be overlooked. MineralMan Mar 2017 #2

Millennials continue to be lumped together into a single, monolithic block. EL34x4 Mar 2017 #3

People tend to do that with all sorts of blocs of voters. MineralMan Mar 2017 #4

Yea this idea that Millennials are somehow smarter than their parents/grandparents is bunk DemocraticSocialist8 Mar 2017 #5

It's like Ron Paul in the US. He had a following of clueless college bros. Oneironaut Mar 2017 #6