Top 5 Reasons Millennials are Actually Libertarians

2. Most of us don’t trust the parties.

Over a quarter (28%) of millennials in the Reason magazine poll linked above actually trust neither party to handle… anything, at all. Half don’t think either party will responsibly handle privacy, which is, as we know, super important to us.

If only there were a party that was really into privacy and doesn’t have a record of screwing over American citizens.

Oh, right.

Now keep in mind that that poll was taken two years ago, before the Sanders supporters realized how impressively unfair the Democratic Party is. Also, of course, before the Trump train ran over the Republicans. There’s no polling data from the last year, so this is conjecture, but hear me out.

I’d be willing to bet the farm I don’t own that millennials are even more disgusted with both parties than we were two years ago. I’d bet my life on it. It’s impressive how many of my fellow millennials are just horrified by this whole mess. We’re just plain disillusioned.

So let me talk to my generation directly for a second. We don’t have to accept this. We don’t have to accept the rigging, xenophobia, and mudslinging.

The fact is that we are better than this. We shouldn’t accept any of it. We don’t have to. It’s our right and duty to vote with our conscience, even if that means supporting someone who probably won’t win.

Turn the distrust of the parties, even of the whole system, into positive action. That’s what I’m trying to do. We’ll all bring our own experiences and beliefs to the table, but I think we can get something really done if we buckle down. It’ll happen if we turn a negative distrust to positive activism and real voting for people with principles.