You recognize your government is dangerous shape when it starts comparing itself to fallen empires of the past. Sadly, that is the case in trendy America.
The Government Accountability Workplace, the freelance agency charged with investigating the (in)potency of government programs, recently warned us that our "burning platform" of unsustainable public policies was therefore dire that the agency felt obliged to warn of the "putting similarities" between our government's situation nowadays and the fall of the Roman Empire.
In this panoramic landscape of abject government failure, political liability ought to spread across the generations. Intransigent leaders from the Silent Generation have delayed social and political progress. The apathy of voters from Generations X and Y has entrenched the ability of reckless and incompetent politicians. However given their power, influence and rhetoric, the leaders hailing from the Baby Boomer generation have been the foremost disappointing in their contributions to our current mess.
Baby Boomers have occupied the White House since 1993 and have held a solid majority within the House of Representatives since 1998. In the U.S. Senate, which incorporates a higher age demand, Boomers have still held nearly [*fr1] the votes since the flip of the century, even gaining a transient one-vote majority from 2003 to 2007. A whopping thirty-seven of our fifty states currently have Baby Boomer governors. One wonders, given this spectacular hold on power for the past decade, what will this legendary generation have to show for itself politically? Or in different words, what have these 1960s idealists, now boasting decades of real-world experience, done to strengthen our democracy and lead us into the new millennium? (Answer: Not much.)
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As the obstacles to our nation's progress have mounted, Baby Boomer political leaders have largely sought to deflect responsibility, avoid robust decisions, and instead focus their efforts on discrediting their political opponents. Because the Boomers have grown in their influence, they need not solely failed to solve problems, however in several ways in which, they need left Yank Democracy worse off.
Together with their manifold policy failures, Boomers have led Yankee politics into what Andrew Sullivan has called "the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation." Nowhere is their childish bickering additional apparent than the partisan mud-flinging that currently passes for political commentary. Best-selling conservative Boomer pundits like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity, et. al, pen a dizzying variety of worthless screeds accusing their political opponents of treason, stupidity and hypocrisy, and their best-selling Left Boomer pundit counterparts, Michael Moore, Al Franken, et al, respond in kind with equally nauseating vitriol.
The Boomers' failures are distributed uniformly from Right to Left. But given the liberal-leaning Boomers' original rise from the Sixties counterculture, their weak-kneed absorption into the partisan political establishment is most ironic. The generation that fought free speech and the right to question authority currently enforces strict political correctness and quashes political dissent from their tenured posts in academia.
The proverbial light at the tip of the proverbial tunnel
Perhaps the only hope for amendment lies with the younger generations - Generation X and my generation, the millennials - who will someday, inevitably, take over power.
Granted in many ways that, hoping on my generation may be a risky bet. We're known mostly for our political apathy and ignorance of current events. We don't even care to vote, recognize who our representatives are, or extremely feel the need to own any type of political identity whatsoever.
However as we know, things will change. If there is anything that the Baby Boomers prove, it's that political activism in one's youth fails to translate to effective political leadership in one's better years. Seriously - why not us?
In many ways, our generation is best equipped to assist lead America through the challenges of the 21st century. We have lifetime expertise with trendy trends like laptop technology and globalization, and therefore are the most capable of transcending the worry, cultural division and xenophobia with that most of our elders face those new realities.
Our entrepreneurial streak - our peers have founded some of the foremost innovative new media companies in the globe - makes us better understand the importance of fiscal responsibility, market competition and open trade.
Raised on rap music, lascivious music videos and violent video games, we have a tendency to are remarkably adept at making our own judgments of personal morality, whether or not or not our parents believe it. Our love of social networking leaves us appreciative each of individual expression and cluster association. Our advanced technical knowledge of computer networks will even facilitate us higher perceive how terrorist networks operate. We have a tendency to haven't any operating memory of the Cold War, and thus a lot of less inquisitive about the divisive ideological battling that afflicts the Boomers who cannot seemingly escape that period.
Can the late-coming millennials, currently wallowing in their self-absorbed world, place those good social resources to figure and actually change something? Here's hoping.
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