George Packer, in the New Yorker, points out something telling about GenY and the Millineals:
The Obama movement. The most disappointed people I meet are under thirty, the generation that made the Obama campaign a movement in its early primary months. They spent their entire adult lives under the worst President of our lifetime, they loved Obama because he was new and inspiring, and they felt that replacing the former with the latter would be a national deliverance. They weren’t wrong about that, but the ebbing of grassroots energy once the Obama campaign turned to governing suggests that some of his most enthusiastic backers saw the election as an end in itself.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2009/11/obamas-troubles.html#ixzz0Y2f0tPRq