Letters to the Editor
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Way to go Captainlarab
As someone whom originally supported neither Clinton or Obama, I have looked objectively and have witnessed up close almost exactly what you stated. My occupation requires that I come in frequent and usually daily contact with supporters of both remaining Dem candidates and the sometimes open contempt the older and younger generations have for one another is really starting to show itself. Walk into Clinton's campaign office and it's almost entirely traditional Dems in thier late-50's or early 60's angry at not having the slightest clue as to why Obama's in the lead and raising more money. The most common rant is usually along the lines of how they could never entrust that much power to somebody who's "much to young to handle this level of responsibility" and therefore could never be considered a "safe choice". Go into Obama's office and it's a little more of a mixed bag with some as old as me (just turned 40) but lots of people in thier early 20's and you can just sense the flat-out disgust they have built up towards the previous generations as they talk about how these baby-boomers have done nothing but put themselves above every other issue facing the country and even the planet, could care less that thier "safe choices" have always led to disaster for every generation behind them and how they were sick of having having a bunch of old people continually make a mess like Iraq and then wring thier hands and duck accountability while younger kids had to go fight and die over there with the added insult of the younger and even next generation having to pay for the whole fiasco because the boomers are too spoiled. And I thought I sensed some frustration at boomers when GENERATION DEBT by Anya Kemenetz. She was tame compared to some of the Obama die-hards.
I've heard all the feminist angles on the candidates and I can understand what drives the motives to some degree, but it's starting to appear that some on one side want a symbolic victory so much that they may have lost sight of that the movement started out as a vehicle to someday ensure that women would be able to have access to and freely make choices. Feminism is(or at leasst was) a movement, and not blind allegiance to one candidacy or another.