Nick Gillespie: Why is the Establishment Flipping Out Over Millennials’ “Individualism”?

In the wake of a recent Pew Research study on
Millennials (Americans between the ages of 18 and 33), conservative
and liberal columnists alike at The New York Times started
flipping out over Millennials as “Generation Selfie.” Their main
beef? Younger folks distrust the government and organized religion
and evince dangerous leves of “individualism.”

Writes Nick Gillespie:

That discomfort you’re sensing all around you? It’s the American
Establishment loading its Depends diapers over the prospect of a
younger generation that is turning its back on political parties
and other zombified artifacts of our glorious past….It’s easy to
understand why folks at The New York Times and,
say, at Democratic and Republican headquarters, and the National
Council of Churches are worried about all this. After all, it’s
their “traditional institutions” that are being left behind like
Mayan ruins. But who can blame Millennials for, say, vacating
worn-out, pre-Civil War political brands such as the Democrats and
Republicans, two groups that are about as relevant and dependable
as your father’s Oldsmobile?

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