Generation X reshaping global politics

[David Horn]

(11-19-2021, 11:17 AM)Anthony Wrote: If only the good old U.S. of A. can follow suit.

But then again, we're the only developed country without universal health care, and also the only developed country without high-speed rail.

And while we have had a string of Boomer puppets in the Oval Office, it has actually been the Silent - or as I call them, "The Cold War Bloody Shirt Generation" - who are pulling the strings, with their paranoia about "socialism."

The two most guilty parties are

• Ronald Reagan, for selling nonsense in his wonderful aw-shucks style. He single handedly swung the American people away from the communal model and into the libertarian one -- yet no one seemed to notice.
  
• Bill Clinton for validating the Reagan model, and ending any opposition viewpoint from the political space.  GWB may have pushed the envelope even further than Clinton, but the path was already prepared for him. 
  

Resolution of this unnatural tilt and the restoration of the political duality that made the country a democracy is still TBD.  And you are dead on: the Silent generation is still solidly in charge on the left, and Gen X is storming the barracades on the right.  Boomers have little left to offer, so it's the Millennials or no one.

Will Nancy and her Crew go quietly into that good night, or rage on in their quiet and oh so polite style?