They might be getting stuff done but unless they are in the import business they won't be fed, clothed or sheltered.
People live on product...not services and few of these young people have basic survival skills. Our government wants it that way. It's the fastest road to complete dependency.

If true, all that good work we have been doing is for naught.

imo little gangs of people getting next to nothing done, on their phone apps.

But it is a good opportunity for one who writes phone apps that distract the slaves from their shackles.

Against whom?

Or do they become reachable?

"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged."

Or who signed up for a government benefit and didn't get it.

Revolt.

Oh but is sounds so good. Pink Unicorns and pretty rainbows.

Liberalism sounds so pleasing and so wonderful. Unfortunately the reality is it is not, and never will be until 100% of the entire population of the earth are absolutely perfect sin-free humans, concerned with nothing but the benefit and welfare of everyone else everyone working at 100% to benefit everyone else regardless of their abilities, never taking 1 iota more than is needed. and always contributing any potential excess to the collective good.

Good luck with that. Until then I just wish they would get out of my face and worry only about themselves and their actions.

Glad you seem to have a head on your shoulders.

"60+ years of liberals in charge may just backfire"

It always has backfired, the problem is that people just keep thinking it was the wrong people implementing those liberal policies and that surely they've got the right people doing it this time. They refuse to admit that the policies are fundamentally false in the first place.

The other problem is that there is no longer a "moral majority" which holds any fixed standards - they are now a minority of about 35%. There is a sizable block of about 35-40% who go wherever the political winds blow.

There's one thing that could stop that trend.

This government is not delivering for the millennials.

Worse yet, this government is asking them to pony up. And now they don't have anyone to sponge from.

What. Do. They. Do. Now?

I'm not a liberal and many of my Millennial friends aren't either. We are sick of paying out our arses in taxes, we are the generation that had to attend college with a bunch of affirmative action kids that could barely read, but were somehow able to get free college while we worked our butts off paying 30k+ a year for tuition. Also known as the September 11th Generation because that occurred during our formative years and woke many of us up. We had to deal with our hippie parents who spent our futures on three car garages and humvees and McMansions, only to lose them when the economy tanked because their idea of "savings" was a second mortgage. We are the generation that are fighting the wars and coming back wounded and broken and we are asking why. 60+ years of liberals in charge may just backfire in ways you wouldn't expect. Our parents put a number on our heads and our kids, and our kid's kids heads in terms of national debt and many of us are not very happy about that.

"There were no recognizable institutions in Brave New World. No marriage, no families, no religion."
OTOH it had strict state-set hierarchies of Alphas, Betas, etc, that I'm saying people reject more and more.

Your words: "Millennials reject institutions altogether."

There were no recognizable institutions in Brave New World. No marriage, no families, no religion.
60 marked the end of your life, but no one complained (thanks to soma), and there wasn't any relatives to mourn.

"All children are educated via the hypnopaedic process, which provides each child with caste-appropriate subconscious messages to mould the child's lifelong self-image and social outlook to that chosen by the leaders and their predetermined plans for producing future adult generations, as well as stopping the lower caste citizens from wanting to be more than they were grown to be."
Sound like our public school system? And our social welfare programs?
Our children can text while driving, but can't write a comprehensible essay no matter how long they sit at a table.

I reject your "optimistic scenario"...profoundly!

In BNW there was a system in place that designated who was at which echelon of the system. I'm saying Millennials (hopefully) want nothing of the sort.

Like in Brave New World?
In that case: 'beam me up, Scotty. NOW!'

Concur here. They are the generation that wants to text everything, despite being right next the person they're texting to. (no joke, I was aghast)

I don't see how this gets better considering kommon kore is now being enforced.

Here is my optimistic scenario on generational politics:
1. Baby Boomers decide institutional need to be liberalized and create liberal institutions.
2. Gen X (me) reject the liberal institutions and create ways for people to create their own institutions, e.g. wikis.
3. Millennials reject institutions altogether. They have kids without getting married, not b/c they follow a radical ideology but b/c they're not about institutions. They're not fired up about voting. They're creating their own worlds, own little gangs of people getting stuff done, on their phone apps.

If we ever win our world, what will we do with these....I have no word for them. I am fine with just letting them go their own way - preferably East - because they will cease to be able to live very quickly. And we'll STILL be picking up after them!

I have always been under the impression that, most of the time, nations just become more and more liberal and socialistic until they collapse under their own weight. From the ashes often rises a different, more enlightened nation.

Currently, China seems to be struggling between the forces of newfound personal wealth created by a strong industrial sector vs. totalitarian/commie leadership. But, most others are just simply following that trend line down to collapse, right? Why should we be any different? We aren't so special (any more). We care more about the poorly-dancing shark on the left than what Thomas Jefferson believed. The NeoCons aren't helping because they, by virtue of their actions, are very statist. That's all we got? Jeb Bush? Haha...where's my popcorn?...

They are used to getting everything handed to them on a platter by many parents or are at least 2nd generation welfare recipients so how could we expect any different.