Fool them thrice: Millennials don’t want a “Sugar ‘Bama”

Twice the millennial generation — no doubt filled with youthful-but-misplaced optimism for their commander-in-chief — voted President Barack Obama into office, riding high off the smoke-and-mirrors promise they would be able to stay on their parents’ health-insurance until the end of the year in which they turn 26 — a facet of Obamacare that benefited some in the short-term but arguably at the expense of millennials’ long-term well-being.

But millennials are beginning to see past the short-lived deferment, as a majority of young Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance, according to findings by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

The poll, titled “Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service, was conducted Oct. 30 through Nov. 11 and surveyed 2,089 young adults between the ages of 18 and 29.

A whopping 54 percent of those polled disapprove of President Obama’s job performance, while 61 percent specifically disapprove of the way he is handling the economy, which — according to the study — is the foremost issue worrying millennials.

As far as healthcare is concerned, a staggering 61 percent of those polled disapprove of the way the president is handling healthcare, while 57 percent particularly disapprove of Obamacare.

“Young Americans put President Obama in office, but don’t think that means they agree with how he is handling his job as president,” Raffi Williams, deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee, said in a statement released on the heels of President Obama’s Wednesday youth summit aimed at teaching millennials about Obamacare.

“[President] Obama has increased millennials’ insurance premiums and lied to them about keeping their coverage,” Williams adds. “Young Americans aren’t daft, they know a bad deal when they see one and that is why they are abandoning the president and no amount of spin can change the facts that, just like MySpace, millennials are over [scary Barry].”

Perhaps a more startling revelation is that 45 percent of those young adults polled say religion is an important part of their identity, while 37 percent say they consider themselves “born-again” Christians. Nineteen percent of those polled identified as Catholic, while those that identified as evangelical Christian and protestant sit at 13 and 14 percent, respectively — statistics that could play into millennials’ displeasure with the law and the Obama administration’s apparent disregard for those with religious objections.

The smoke is clearing and millennials are beginning to see the light; let’s hope it’s bright enough for a turning point in American politics and culture — a culture where people take care of people rather than excessively allow the government to step in.

And, if millennials are as Catholic as they profess, perhaps they agree with practicing Catholic Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, who in his latest column says Americans — not the government — ought to care for each other.

“Traditional Catholic social teaching imposes on all of the a moral obligation to become our brothers’ keepers. But this is a personal moral obligation, enforced by conscience and church teaching  and the fires of hell —  not by the coercive powers of the government,” he says. “Charity comes from the heart. It consists of freely giving away one’s wealth. It is impossible to be charitable with someone else’s money. That’s theft, not charity.”

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