Mr. Hurley before I move on to make an adult point perhaps you can explain to me what socialism is.
Victor:
It is interesting that you refer to the Boomers as having a rigid world view because the boomer mind set has always been how open minded and flexible they are as opposed to their ideologically rigid 1950s parents. I don’t know where you fit in among the generations but that observation is spot on.
Every generation believes that their parents are stodgy closed minded people who don’t know very much. However, this is the first time that the younger generations held the balance of power in an election. Previous generations have been put in power by their peers. Obama is actually a late boomer (1961) and not Gen X. It says a lot about his maturity that he was the Gen X/Gen Y candidate. The mythology of Camelot has hidden the fact that JFK was 1950s candidate elected by his peers from the World War II generation and the boomers were actually revolting against him and his legacy. Obama’s Gen X and Gen Y base are likely to the cause of his political demise because he cannot govern as they would like and be a successful President. Disillusionment is inevitable.
