“Millennials and Gen Z are not only unlikely to call themselves Protestants and patriots, but also less likely to call themselves Democrats or Republicans. They seem most comfortable with unaffiliation, even anti-affiliation. They are less likely than preceding generations to identify as ‘environmentalists,’ less likely to be loyal to specific brands, and less likely to trust authorities, or companies, or institutions. Less than one-third of them say they have ‘a lot of confidence’ in unions, or Silicon Valley, or the federal government, or the news, or the justice system. And don’t even get them started on the banks.” Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: The nuclear family, God, and national pride are a holy trinity of the American identity. What would happen if a generation gave up on all three? (We’d be left with the new holy trinity: Twitter, Netflix, and the Hurricane Heading for Alabama…)