Why would a Baby Boomer support this establishment?
When they were young, so many of them rightfully rebelled against a Democratic establishment that was sending their fathers, brothers, husbands, friends and lovers to die in the jungles of Vietnam. They tossed out a liberal president who, like some Shakespearean monarch, had descended into madness and effectively destroyed the Cold War Liberal paradigm (you know, that which would sanction the desegregation of a restaurant while simultaneously napalming a peasant village overseas). They were unruly. They could be anarchic. And they were on the side of right. (And let it be said, these young rebels had plenty of help from older folks.)
So why are a substantial number of them in discord with today's youth, who are rightfully rebelling against a Democratic establishment that aided and abetted the Bush regime's Middle East slaughter as well as the gangsters who continue to plunder our wealth? Why are the young being dismissed as dreamers, by the very people who dared to dream as they dwelled in their own spring?
NOTE: This is not a blanket condemnation of a generation, as I've heard from just as many Boomers who either support radical reform or have shown respect and even grace in their debates.
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