Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Third Millennium picked safe stances: cut the deficit, reduce crime and clean up the environment. Its few social policy recommendations betray neoconservative leanings in assailing affirmative action, calling for 200,000 more police to clean up inner cities and more regulations to protect the environment...
...according to youth leaders from large grass-roots groups like the Urban League, Campus Greenvote and the NAACP. And groups like the United States Associations (USAA), which has 350 member campuses, 3.5 million members and registered 200,000 young voters in 1992, may lack the media savvy of Third Millennium, but they can still make legislators sit up and listen. "Third Millennium can't get 30,00 students to write in to their Congressmen like we can," says USSA president Tchiyuka Cornelius...
...Third Millennium's agenda doesn't even coincide with the concerns of the young people it purports to represent. The group, which was the brainchild of neoconservative pop historian Bill Strauss, jumped on a Perot-style, deficit-hawkish platform pledging to combat "fiscal child abuse" but failed to articulate exactly where cuts other than social security and Medicare should be made. it tossed aside what the group's leaders call "fringe" issues like abortion and health care even though they affect most young people...
...neoconservative bent of Third Millennium was evident from its inception. In fact Third Millennium's ranks are packed with friends of co-founder Bob Lukefahr from the Madison Center in Washington D.C., which funds over 100 neoconservative college publications nationwide, and Jon Karl from Freedom House in New York, the pro-democracy, human-rights watchdog which gave the group seed money. "The reason people who were invited were invited was largely an accident of rolodexes," says Lukefahr the invitation list of original founders at Hickory Hill. "Everybody can't be included. We tried to include as many bleeders as possible...
Sidestepping a bread-and-butter youth agenda, Third Millennium is focused on hot- button media issues. "the whole group is feeding off the boomer media and telling them exactly what they want to hear ," says Who Cares? magazine associate editor Heather McLeod '89, who refused an invitation to co-found the group. A clear message makes for a better soundbite. And with a carefully tailored agenda, Third Millennium went to where the spotlight...