Decoding the 4T - The Winners

[Eric the Green]

(04-21-2018, 03:44 AM)Another Xer Wrote: The whole question of Idealist leadership to me is quite overblown by the generational theory.  Can you think of anyone younger than a Boomer, who thinks in generational terms, who thinks of the Boomer's as providing leadership.  No, any Xer or Millenial pretty much has the same view that leadership is completely lacking from the Boomers.  Their ethos is one of grotesque selfishness that needs to be repulsed, not followed.  

That's not to say the Millenial's won't find a vessel who is the leader.  But the power and guidance will flow from the youth up.  Take Bernie Sanders - he's been there forever.  I passed through Vermont in the 1990s and voted for him once.  He was irrelevant.  Inconsequential.  And certainly nobody that anybody called charismatic.  He was nothing until the Millenials picked him up and made him something.  It's the same with FDR.  The Greatest Generation made him, and not the other way around.  They voted for him en masse in 1932.  They shocked the nation by sealing the deal for the New Deal with strong voter turnout in the midterm election of 1934.  The power flowed from the youth.  Lincoln doesn't count because it was a broken cycle, but it holds true for the Republican Generation.  The youth shaped the way and found a leader that fit their view.  The leader did not mold the youth.

You can talk to me about Stalin and Hitler all you want but it doesn't matter because they aren't the products of free societies.  In America a motivated, self-directed youth (a Civic) can cast off the failures of the old generations.  It's why America rebounds while totalitarians shatter.

There's plenty of good potential boomer leaders. The right ones need to be elected, and haven't been; that's the problem. Most potential candidates today are still boomers or boomer/Xer cuspers. These days, in these last 5 or 6 decades, all younger generations put down their elders. That doesn't matter. People vote for someone of any age if it's the right person to vote for. Generational prejudice is irrelevant.

It doesn't matter what generation a candidate is in. Vote for the best one. Millennials will vote for a Boomer if (s)he's good. Millennials will power the next few presidential elections more than any generation. But no one generation, young or old, is going to choose the leaders of the USA. Hopes that a younger generation alone can change the world might not work out. Boomers been there and tried that.

Some pundits only look at who is famous and getting buzz now or who has money or money raising skills. Others only look at whom they deem as progressive enough, or moderate enough. At this point, none of that matters. The only candidate who can win is a candidate with good candidate skills.

You don't have to look very far to see how totally ruthless, well-financed and utterly ignorant and bubble-bound the right wing who control this country are. And the electoral college gives these often-rural voters an advantage. Dividing ourselves into generational or other demographical factions will not lead to success for the more moderate and liberal folks in America. The other side will win if we do this.