MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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TNR.com > Mark Schmitt > Age Gap
By EmmaZahn on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 9:41pm |To senior citizens at town hall meetings angry or worried about their plan to convert Medicare to a private insurance scheme, Republicans have a simple answer: It’s not about you. You’ll be fine. This is for “the next generation.”
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For Democrats, the defeat of the Ryan plan, like the failed Social Security privatization before it, will be regarded as a great victory, and an opportunity to get a fresh start with worried older voters. But they should not ignore the generational divide revealed by Ryan’s cutoff. If progressive politics has nothing to offer the late Boomers and the generations that follow except the same old programs, and nothing that responds to their distinctive experience of the economy, then eventually they’ll fall for one of these gimmicks from the right.
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Reminds me of Sharon Astyk's predictions that there will be conflict between age groups. I've seen little evidence of that so far, but I keep looking for signs.
by Donal on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 7:54am
It is one of those Big Lies that if repeated often enough begins to sink in. We early boomers have certainly fell for more than our fair share of them.
The difference of this lie is that it is going up against literally millenia of evolution and the key to human survival and predominance. Except for the very privileged who can either hire or enslave support people, families depended on one another across generations.
In many ways our Affluent Society makes all of us more like historic privileged ones. We depend more and more on the kindness (or greed) of strangers for our most basic survival needs.
Not saying that is necessarily a bad thing but it is something we all should keep in mind when talking about economics, politics, etc.
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:24am
Ideally yes. A couple of things though. My brother who is 4 years younger than I is more centrist (conservative) than I am. He fully bought into the "Middle Class American Dream"™ . Where in I did not. The only extended family situation in my family was my cousins on my fathers side where my grandmother lived with them.
My mother could not stand her parents and my father tolerated his family. A some what different scenario than a generation before.
by cmaukonen on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:38am
Que?
I did not state a preference. I merely observed a perceived difference in social arrangements that are still basically the same. Humans are mutually dependent or interdependent -- except for Mountain Men like Jeremiah Johnson. :)
Since you assumed but did not ask, I do not view the isolated nuclear family or clan/tribe as an ideal but they are proven survival modes.
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:53am
Never said you did. Just stating my experience. Of course YMMV.
by cmaukonen on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 12:10pm