"A view from "Generation Y" in NYC"

This is from Election Night 2008.

Posting this because most of you seem to be under the impression, as I was, that Freepers are retired men who live in the south.

Summary: 20-something Freeper living in New York is horrified that Obama won.

I do not know if I am part of Gen Y (23) but will say there are plenty of us who are intelligent and patriotic. I will say that touring any college campus might skew your view (I got to UW-Milwaukee and it is horrible) but we are out there and love this country.

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I work in SoHo and live in Westchester. I took a week’s vacation just to miss the kinds of scenes you describe.

I asked my 24 year old assistant what the deal was with Obama worship. She said it was just a fad. Funny to think that a fad was elected president. I hope he breaks their dumb little hearts.

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I live in Cobble Hill/Carroll gardens Brooklyn. Last night was crazy, it was like new years or july 4th.

You had all of the Arabs on Atlantic ave and zombiefied hipster on smith street dancing with each other. LOL

But in the last few years the remaining old garden in my neighborhood has been replaced by people who can’t afford the rents in the people’s republic of Park Slope.

Staten Island went for McMcain. It should succeed from nyc :)

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I’m a 19 year old Gen Yer and I’m absolutely astounded by the way people my age behave. Obama’s campaign is literally a youtube celebrity gone out of control, and hardly anybody really seems to care about substance.

Not all of us are like that, and I generally don’t associate witth the shallow types, but I’d have to say that a lot of it has to do with the kind of parents they had. I’m really thankful my parents put some common sense in my head.

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I'm a member of Generation X - smack dab in the middle and I'm not telling my age - and this describes the people I know who are my contemporaries. And they dress like slobbish college students. What a disgrace.

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Gen Y is my generation (I was born in 1981). The sheer number of kids close to my age that I've seen and know personally that have gone ga-ga over B. Hussein Obama is scary. Gen Y, by and large, is composed of sheeple, IMO.

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What you see with Gen X and Y, and I am a member of X, is the voting power of those who have always seen the paternal government and know no difference. Have a problem? Government will solve it. Stupidity? Uncle Sam will fix it for you. Not a millionaire? How unfair. Let’s make everything even for everyone. That’s your government’s job.

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Born in 81 and don’t consider myself to be part of either generation. I’d group things more along the lines of 1960-1975, 1976-1985, 1985-2000, 2000->

But then we’d run out of alphabet letters.

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I was born in 1980, and I’ve seen the “XY Cusp” or “MTV Generation” used for those born between approximately 1975 and 1985.

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I would agree with that... My sister who was born in 1979 seems to have grown up on a completely different planet than I did (I was born in ‘72). I would hesitate before placing her in “my” generation... Anyone who doesn’t remember Reagan’s presidency I don’t think fits into Gen X, IMHO.

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My earliest election memory is of Reagan/Mondale. I was in the first grade and my elementary school had a mock election. Reagan won by a landslide (to be fair, it was an American school on a US military installation in Europe, so we were probably influenced by our parents...).

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You may be forgetting that it is our generation, Gen Y, who is fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. I guarantee that our leaders 30 years from now are being shaped on the battlefield today.


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I'm a bit older than you (born in 1974) but my earliest election memory is also of Reagan in 1980. In fact my father insisted on bringing me to the Inauguration and although I had no interest at six years old (would rather have played with my Barbies), I am so grateful that I attended. The memories are priceless.


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I was born in 1968, making me a “Gen Xer”. I remember the how bad the ‘70s and the Carter administration were. When Reagan was elected I sensed fear in a reporters voice. I saw how America changed radically for the better in the ‘80s. Today I work with a bunch of “Gen Y” twenty somethings who were taught that Carter and Clinton were great presidents, Reagan was a terrible president and that Bush is practically the Antichrist. I try to talk some sense into them but they don’t listen.


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Who would have thought that lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 would turn this country into a failed Socialist state in just two generations.

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"Is Generation Y uniquely apathetic?"
Since I'm talkin' 'bout my generation here (if you'll pardon the expression)...apathetic, no. Genuinely stupid and ignorant...oh hell yeah.

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some of us simply don't feel like having to pick up the tab for boomers and their government entitlements. Who's paying for their drug benefits? Not the boomers but the generations coming after them and the self-absorbed lot of them could care less.