In the Loop

The first caucus I ever attended (Republican) was when my first child was a year and a half old and I was 24. I spent several hours over the previous 6 months to find out who my precinct leaders were, with no success. I told them I looked on the internet and made phone calls to former caucus chairs and they told me current information was in the phone book. I said, it'd be nice if there were more in my generation here to represent, and some technological upgrades. They said, technology is unreliable... And, indirectly, so are you. Last year, March 2016, I attended my local caucus in a new city, endured the heat of 70 bodies packed into a High school computer classroom, and volunteered to be a county delegate, secretary, and treasurer, because no one else wanted the job. Surprisingly, no one was overly concerned that I said I was a Centrist that leans Republican. Several said they are too. As any good delegate, I attended meet and greets, vetted candidates for office, asked

Over the last several years, the media and older generations have come to participate in teasing and criticizing the millennial generation. There was a period of time I joined in the banter, feeling confident that I was not a "millennial." Millennials are always texting on their phones. Millennials are piling up debt and student loans. Millennials are living at parents homes into adulthood and avoiding "adulting." Millennials aren't seeking job ladders or buying houses. They're not getting married. They're leaving the church of their childhood. But I want to share a new perspective. Millennials have watched the lives of their parents, and have seen broken marriages, long hours at work, and felt like ignored children. They grew up in materialism, and consumerism, and wide-spread unhappiness. Millennials have experienced this and struggled through the first few years of adulthood. They have grown up and began questioning every single tradition of soci