@xiggi, are you implying that w web & iphones millenials have ready access to internet pornography “clicks” so they just don’t bother with the “bricks”?
Not what I had in mind, but your version might be applicable too. What I had in mind is that our generation probably has plenty more opportunities to find diversions that in the past. The 24/7 television with its web extensions, all kind of news around the clock, music, movies, name it. All in all, there are fewer reasons to have to revert to “simpler” carnal interactions. Well, that is my theory.
Maybe I should have said that we are more tired from working. 
My son is checking out political candidates. So far, he likes Bernie Sanders and Mike Huckabee. Go figure…
Another interesting trend with millenials 1/3 say they are not affiliated with any church. I have seen this in the last few weddings we have been to. Not in a church and ceremonies that had no religious language. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/living/pew-religion-study/index.html
I’ve been mugged. Someone would probably be dead if I had had a gun. As it is I was just lost about $20. Anyway it didn’t change my politics.
My kids aren’t affiliated with a church or synagogue. They were brought up in Ethical Culture - no idea if they’d consider that for a wedding or will just want a friend to officiate. The weddings we’ve been to in the last few years have all been religious.
To throw another caution into the generalizations here, I’ll note that even though in the US libertarian usually has a particular meaning (think Ron—not Rand!—Paul), there are actually many strands of libertarianism. US libertarianism is generally right-libertarianism, but there’s also left-libertarianism or even socialist libertarianism (think Noam Chomsky). So when throwing around the idea that “millennials must be libertarian, then”, well, maybe—but which one?
I’ve been raped and I’m still probably one of the most liberal people you will ever come across.
And I am extremely anti-gun. I would ban them all if I could. After working at a domestic violence shelter, I became even more anti-gun. I distinctly remember a woman telling me this: “I can outrun a knife but I can’t outrun a bullet.”
No. Just like all conservatives aren’t against marriage equality, etc. However, being anti-stem cell research is considered a conservative position. You can be generally X but still believe in some causes of Y.
It was actually a right-leaning libertarian who told me the part of the saying that “a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested” to go along with “a conservative is a liberal who has been robbed”. Perhaps not too surprising, since libertarians do not like crime which harms others, but also do not trust the police and criminal justice system to be completely free of corruption.
^^I would guess that is more of a position of religious individuals, in particular.
Not necessarily being against stem cell research per se, but believing that there are enough private interest in the field to eliminate the government to be really active in funding the research. Libertarian views often find their genesis in the tendency of governments to waste money and trust it to incapables and thieves.
My parents are/were religious conservatives who are/were against stem-cell research for religious reasons, despite the possibility of stem cell therapy having been developed for my mom’s MS. I respect their dedication to their position, despite my being a non-religious, pro stem-cell liberal (who just missed being a Boomer by 1 year).
I thought the stem cell objection was to using embryonic and fetal stem cells, not all stem cells.
At least when incapables waste my money, it’s usually with some voluntary involvement on my part. Tbe key concept is CONSENT.
One of my millennial s a church going person and the other is a non religious person. Go figure.
Depends on who you ask.
The hedge (often) is noted, but whether this is true really depends on which strand of libertarianism (cf. my earlier post on that).
^^ I wonder how popular the leftist libertarian views of Van Parijs would be popular in the U.S. And among millennials? Basic income through redistribution and a tax on our lingua Franca! His theories do not represent the entire spectrum off those neo-anarchists, but I doubt the rest would find many supporters among the young, short of perhaps deep environmentalists.
I believe that the less taxes, smaller government, and economic laissez-faire are bigger parts of the agenda. This might also come with twists of social justice and freedom.