No Shit

Older baby boomers caught all the breaks

Defenders of the Faith

The media seem a bit discombobulated about the recent turn of events. This isn't what we scripted. It's amazing: The writers go on strike, and the Hillary narrative goes to shit. Wink Romney's perfect hair is a little ratty, his ambitions are looking unreachable. So we cast ourselves as being the defenders of bipartisan America. Driftglass has a good illustration of some of these the embedded meme in this ideological pose: We are defending America's center against the polarizing ideological extremists. This could have been ripped from Andrew Sullivan's excellent piece on Obama, and how and why he has resonated.: He is a rejection of the binary paradigm of the sixties. The Boomers, as with so much of their inherent selfishness, are not inclined to give up their ideological enemies list, their pet peeves, and we are further burdened with an phony "us and them"-A real Hopper Tyranny. Let it go. Nixon's dead. The Eagles suck.

Can we please move on? Let's rebel against these folks. They are the establishment. They are "the man."