He is the poster child for the Millennial generation's version of this:
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Just replace the armband with a hammer and sickle or a rainbow flag or a Che Guevara patch, and you get the idea.
It seems since the sixties every generation has a percentage of youths who claim to speak for everyone in their generation.
Maybe the Millennial generation has a larger share of their group who believe they're the first generation in history with "the truth," but I'll bet there are millions of Millennials who are very similar to the Americans of old. I know because I have a son in law who is a millennial and very conservative. Even my liberal son in law and my stepdaughter live very conservative lives. He's a churchgoer, a hunter, and a Boy Scout troop leader.
But even the so-called "hippie generation" of the sixties only had a tiny pct. who could have been called hippies. Most children of the sixties were about as conservative as their parents.
But the sixties libs and leftists, then as now, were the loudest voices. They claimed to speak for everyone in their generation when millions of Boomers, like me, would have just liked to see them all get a swift kick in their kiesters and shut up.
We'll see about this new generation. I'll bet, like many ex-hippies, they'll find that life is not a liberal cliche. Reality is conservative.