{"id":8906,"date":"2014-07-14T16:57:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:57:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:57:47","slug":"what_do_millennials_know_and_how_long_have_they_known_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/14\/what_do_millennials_know_and_how_long_have_they_known_it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Millennials Know and How Long Have They Known It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Matt in Columbus. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, 21-year-old listener, first-time caller here. Just calling \u2019cause I read a New York Times article stating that the youth vote doesn\u2019t remember the 1990s and doesn\u2019t remember the early 2000s. The only memory they have is of Obama and the Democrats ruining this country, so it\u2019s going to switch the youth vote from the Democrats to the Republicans. I was wondering if you believe this and what your thoughts on that was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Matt, I\u2019m glad that you called and asked. We talked about this last week<\/a> and it a big mumble-jumble of a bunch of things. There was a Pew Center research study on the Millennials which is people between 18 and 29, 18 and 31 years of age. This survey was fascinating because in practically every category, by 55-45% or 57-43%, Millennials said they believed in smaller government, lower taxes. The Reagan agenda.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Without knowing that\u2019s what they were doing that\u2019s what they were voting for. But then later in the poll, it said that despite all of that they still planned on voting Democrat. Now, the age group you\u2019re talking about is not Millennials. That was another story. I was kind of struck by it just like you are, and the point of the story that you saw in the New York Times — and I\u2019m having a mental block remembering the author. Do you remember the writer\u2019s name? Do you have it in front of you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unfortunately, I do not. I\u2019m driving at the moment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it was fascinating, and I think the point that he made is valid, and I said so at the time. You\u2019re gonna have some people who are able to vote in 2016 for the first time who\u2019ll be 18 years old, and they do not have a memory of George Bush as a reprobate like the Millennials do. The Millennials\u2019 image of Republicans is forged by the way the media treated George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

Of course they hammered Bush and they crucified Bush. They ripped Bush to shreds, and Bush never responded to any of it. So they think Bush is the worst president ever. Bush caused the economic crisis, Bush and the war in Iraq. Bush was horrible. Bush and Katrina. Bush didn\u2019t care about people. Democrats care about people! That\u2019s who the Millennials are. <\/p>\n

But the people you\u2019re talking about, they weren\u2019t alive or old enough to remember any of that. They are coming of voting age in a period where the country is in a massive state of decline. It\u2019s in a state that they do not wish to inherit, and so the point of that piece was that they are likely to be very disgruntled with the current Democrat Party and with President Obama and unlikely to vote for it, meaning to Democrats in 2014 and in 2016. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2016 when they\u2019re gonna be 18. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a valid point. <\/p>\n

Now, they have been treated to a sycophantic media covering for Obama, saying great things about him. But the fact of the matter is the country is a mess and there isn\u2019t any upbeat, positive, inspiring news or events anywhere that they are exposed to (unless it\u2019s happening in their private lives), because media that they access is not reflecting any of that. I think it\u2019s a valid point. I think it has to be worked. I don\u2019t think you sit by and take a chance and wait for it, but it has to be worked, meaning people who want the votes of those people are gonna have to go out and actually seek them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our last caller asked about a piece in the New York Times, and it\u2019s this one, David Leonhardt, or Leonhardt, I think is how he pronounces it, and it was titled, “Why Teenagers Today May Grow Up Conservative<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And this was the crux of the piece that I was explaining to the caller asking about this piece. “To Americans in their 20s and early 30s — the so-called millennials — many of these problems have their roots in George W. Bush\u00c2\u2019s presidency. But think about people who were born in 1998, the youngest eligible voters in the next presidential election. They are too young to remember much about the Bush years or the excitement surrounding the first Obama presidential campaign. They instead are coming of age with a Democratic president who often seems unable to fix the world\u00c2\u2019s problems.” And it\u2019s getting to the point where he seems not interested in fixing any problems. <\/p>\n

Now, there is a counter to this, and I\u2019m not trying to be negative, I\u2019m just trying to infuse a little realism. Yes, these teenagers who will be eligible to vote for the first time in 2016 are indeed growing up and coming of age with an inept and seemingly incompetent, disorganized, and unattached Democrat president unable to fix anything or deal with anything. However, while all of that is true, don\u2019t forget they have been in public school classrooms where they have been told how wonderful Obama is and how the Republicans hate him and the racists hate him and the reason he\u2019s having trouble is because nobody will work with him. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget what they\u2019re being taught and how they measure or balance that against what they see. And you know as well as I do, the Obama apologists are everywhere, and they\u2019re trying to claim that the Republicans have never supported, the Republicans are always in Obama\u2019s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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