Could age have something to do with it? [View All]

(Full disclosure: I'm 26, too young to remember the USSR and barely old enough to remember the Berlin Wall coming down)

So, as I have been observing these protests, I've noticed that a majority of the raucous protesters appear to be at least 40, many are definitely older.

I'm wondering if the "evil socialism" of a government health care option has a stronger influence on people raised in the Cold War era. From what my mom tells me, this generation was raised to believe that socialism is evil and to look at the world in a very black and white way. Could this be why there aren't many younger protesters of the government option? Does the word "socialist" have less power on the post-Cold War generation?

Thoughts?