Millenials appear to have liberal politics, according to:
http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/30/a-different-look-at-generations-and-partisanship/
But they tend to have conservative personal behavior (fewer sexual partners, less premarital sex, less drinking, less smoking):
http://time.com/3852117/millennials-sex-parents-boomers/
Interesting, is it possible I am a baby boomer in the millennium generation?
But but but I keep hearing about hook up culture and how my generation doesn’t care about who they sleep with and they have dozens of partners every year, and, and, and…
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Mine has said she will vote Republican the next election after paying a lot if self employment tax, so I know not this one particular millennial. But overall, both of my kids are reasonably liberal.
Among her friends only 2 hooked up with multiple partners in college and they are both from the east Coast. The Southern Cal kids they are friends with are pretty tamed.
But what I’ve found my kids to be conservative in is money and investment. Somehow they don’t like to invest in stocks. Who to blame them after the 2008-2009 debacles.
I think a lot of millennials are libertarian but just don’t know it.
Trying not to get political so will word this carefully. A lot of millennials, myself included, consider themselves libertarian or libertarian leaning. This is reflected in Dem/Dem leaning in polls. It has to do with the fact that we care more about social issues than fiscal… and even those who care about fiscal issues just can’t vote for limiting the social/civil rights of themselves and their friends.
(I will not debate or clarify this.)
@drgoogle - It’s too bad your children didn’t invest in stocks in 2008 as they would have done quite well by now. Even if they had been invested prior to 2008 and maintained their positions, they would have done quite well. Being overly cautious can be one of the poorer investment decisions to make, especially in this period of low interest rates that trail well behind inflation.
I started investing in Lending Club and it’s been good so far. A surprisingly high number seem to default but the interest rates are just so high that it still seems to be in the 13-14% range overall. The other thing is it will have much less correlation to the stock market than any stock-heavy mutual funds, so it would be good to have some money in there and some in mutual funds.
Kinda missed my point in there… If your kids don’t like the stock market volatility, have them check out lending club. The returns are pretty good and it’s less volatile. Probably still rather high risk though.
Post #6, they did have a small amount so it didn’t really matter but In 2008 one kid is 18 and the other is 13 so investment was not on their radar. They would have done well if they didn’t spend all their money, but unfortunately they spent all their money. However going forward is what I’m trying to help them become comfortable with investing in stocks.
My husband also falls in that category, extra cautious, but luckily I rearranged his account when he was not looking, moved cash to stocks.
Hopefully they will lead us to a third party. The leave us alone party stay out of our pockets and life at much as possible party because we see everyone as equal and do not hate them for being who they are and we do not want their money either.
Hey I want to be in that party, but it’s not out there. Vote for tom1944!
@Vladenschlutte I love lending club and we have personally used them for loans on two different occasions. I am so mad that we are not allowed to invest in our state! However, I did buy some of the stock when it went public a few months back so I am hoping to do well on that end.
This baby boomer has always been liberal politically and conservative personally.
Now I guess I’m trendy too.
I would have liberal personal behavior if I could get enough people to agree.
“I would have liberal personal behavior if I could get enough people to agree.”
Um…I’m not quite sure how to take that statement. It seems like it should be followed by a 
I’m taking it with a 
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Uh oh, that looks like trouble!
Always wondered who borrowed money through them. Was it debt consolidation? Most of the ones I see seem to be, but occasionally I see some weird person taking out a 25% interest rate loan for home improvement.
The first rule of lending club is you don’t talk about lending club…