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Monday, February 13, 2017

This article on millennials came out a year ago — is it even more appropriate today?

We're Millennials — Hear Us Roar

By William Handke and Ross Pomeroy RealClear Politics
January 26, 2016

William Handke is a graduate of Georgetown University and self-employed entrepreneur. Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. They are partners, along with three of their high school friends, in Five Friends Food, which makes Fresh Bar.

Last year, a major upheaval occurred in the United States, and you probably didn’t even notice. The change was silent, yet seismic, and will irrevocably alter the course of our country.

Millennials, Americans born between 1980 and 1997, now comprise the largest portion of the U.S. population — and all of them are now eligible to vote. That’s right: If they so choose, millennials could be the dominant force in American politics. If demographic and political surveys are any indication, this portends massive changes to U.S. governance and culture.

These changes are ones that many millennials, us included, will enthusiastically welcome. As we have previously written, our baby boomer parents and grandparents have monopolized and misused their political power ever since they seized it – committing crimes against their children’s and grandchildren’s generations in myriad ways.

For starters, they have expanded lavish government benefits on themselves while lowering their own taxes, with the inevitable result of piling up future government debt. Furthermore, they have catastrophically mismanaged the economy, relegating millions of citizens to second-class status. And they have ignored the real causes of climate change, the worst effects of which many of them will never see.

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