"Why does this demographics shift matter? Here is an example of why: When it became clear that the healthcare reform package might include a 5% tax on multimillionaires, conservative boomers went mad and 18 to 30-year olds yawned. They don’t have sympathy invested into the plight of millionaires. Unlike their parents, they never bought into the “trickle down” myth. That was where taxpayers were supposed to give more money to millionaires in hopes that some of that money would trickle down to the pockets of the average American. The “O” Generation regards Republican-driven teabag, anti-tax, anti-government; anti-most everything as an oddity that provides cheap laugh material for Jon Stewart’s comedy central programming. The disconnect between aging rabble-rousers and young voters wanting change is extraordinary. We laughed at Johnny Carson and Topo Gigio skits on Ed Sullivan. They laugh at politically-themed skits on S.N.L. and Bill Maher. We were a generation that believed it was okay for Henry Kravis to make $54,000 an hour while 47 million people live below the poverty line on less than $12,000 a year. The “O” voters are repulsed by such a reality."
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Mike Papantonio (via azspot)
For the record, I don’t think Bill Maher is that funny. But Jon Stewart certainly is.
