Now now, his generation elected? Well HIS generation led the effort to end segregation AND DID, fought to give all the right to vote, forced and led the way giving all the same rights including women, hit the streets to end a war as others in the same generation fought the war and never lost a major battle, broke the mold of social values to bring sex and the human side out of the darkness, made the environment something to be saved. When he was young the D's fought for segregation, the R's did not believe in foreign wars ( remember Ike's warning ) the world at 18 that I lived in does not faintly resemble the present ............ thank god.

Where they went wrong is liberal or conservative is when they let let the two social issues of abortion & religion define the present two parties. A so called religious conservative trying to push there views on others is not a true Goldwater conservative anymore than a person that calls themselves a progressive is a true liberal but rather someone without conviction and nothing but a party HACK as liberal is a honorable title and they have led the way much of our history. No idea how old you are but starting the late sixties through the seventies the young generations that are the boomers led and pressed for change and social justice as none since the Civil War had.

We made a mistake as his generation ( and mine ) fought the good fight then wandered off and lived our lives without a lot of political thought and things went kinda nuts. What we have here is a major course correction that will play out over the next 10 years or so and if you think this country will look like it does now then your wrong. Do not know what the nation will look like then anymore than I did when I signed up to work for Robert Kennedy but it is going to change, dramatically.

There is nothing meaner than a boomer who is fed up and those two parties need to and in all likelyhood will pay the price they so richly deserve.