What Say You, Gen Y?

I came across this piece this morning as I browsed the news over my morning coffee, and thought--especially considering the context of this course and the topics you've all chosen for your research projects--that you might find it interesting. What power do you wield in participating in the public forum, in advancing public arguments? Here's what Assistant Professor Jim Burkee has to say about you:

[ . . .] the political loyalties of that coveted demographic are not yet decided. While they seem to lean to the left, they're actually more libertarian than liberal, a fact that will reshape the way we think about liberalism and conservatism in decades to come.

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In short, they love their freedom.

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The truth is, [America's Generation Y (born between 1980 and 1995)], which seems not to fit in any neat political category, is more ideologically consistent than either Democrats or Republicans. The conservatism that dominates the Republican Party today is a combination of limited government in some places (taxation and regulation), but bigger and more intrusive government elsewhere (homeland security, military and on social issues). The Democratic Party is just as inconsistent, preferring government to be hands-off on social and civil liberty issues, but large elsewhere in areas like health care and other entitlements. [more]

So what say you, Gen Y?