I was raised conservative — my father was a Henry Wallace Democrat when he got back from the war, and when he found out his candidate was backed by Moscow he turned into a hardcore old-fashioned Hoover Republican and hasn’t budged since.

But when the time came for my youthful political rebellion — it was 1980. I’d watched my country get humiliated and wallow in helplessness for my entire childhood (born in 1966). The first man I voted for was Ronald Reagan in 1984 and I’ve never looked back.

Right now I live in Massachusetts on the fringes of academia; I’m a freelance writer. I know only two people who aren’t liberal democrats or worse. At times I feel close to despair, watching the college students parroting back what their leftist profs have taught them.

I’ve been self-employed most of my adult life and I expect to die that way.

No, it’s not. The fix is in.

Back to the topic: I’ve been thinking for quite a while that this country needs to move beyond the 60s radical-vs-establishment paradigm and toward something more cooperative. I don’t think that can happen until the last John Kerry, George Bush, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, and John Murtha is out of office, out of power, out of influence, and maybe even in his grave. The fact that the 2004 election was practically a referendum on the Vietnam War shows that these people are still living in the past more than they’re dealing with the present. The fact the neo felt the need to create this blog shows that lots of normal people are still suffering the effects of that poisonous era.

One of the few good things I can say about Obama is that he lives in my world, not in my dad’s world. Unfortunately, my generation inherited the schism created by the Vietnam-era people, and Obama and I are on opposite sides of the divide. Obama flourishes in this schizoid atmosphere; he games it in order to win power. I’m just weary of the whole thing.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/26/obama-in-2001-how-to-bring-about-redistributive-change/

Sorry it’s off topic slightly.

Peace to you. I enjoyed your weekend non-political writing.

I quite understand if you don’t want to hear from me fro a while (!) I swear I didn’t realize there was a finger holding back the flood!

However I sent you a message — the last one — asking if I may post a comment pertinent to the “all the boomers” or “a few.” Mind you, the beginning reads dishearting, but it truly isn’t…

However, I don’t want to post it without your approval as it is INCREDIBLY long. (Sorry. I’m long winded.)

P.

At least when I talk about the ones at least a few years older than I am I couch it with the understanding that they aren’t all that way.

While there may be such a thing as collective guilt, collective punishment is unjust and cruel.

Also, much of the Far Left socialists and anarchists have large gay contingents, but I don’t tar all gay people that way. Reality is a lot more complex than our constructions of it are. Raw anger sooner or later has to be constructively channeled. Otherwise, it can become destructive.