Reply #2: It's that 34-49 cohort, born between 1955-1970 [View All]

[Warpy]

and the reason the author cites are good ones. They were spared the real brunt of the OPEC fueled economic disaster of the 70s, and their experience has been a stock market that has generally gone up (which is why they have such a childlike and absolute faith in it for social security). They don't remember what this country was like for working people when the New Deal reforms were in place, before the massive inflation of the 70s caused everybody's taxes to shoot up. They don't know that the only homeless people we used to see were the skid row drunks who hadn't been able to cadge enough money for a flop or whose military pension checks had run out before the end of the month. The have no idea what this country was life when the manufacturing base was located here and people could work for the same company their whole lives and know they would have a pension and health insurance to see them through their retirements.

They just have no clue. They think the country was always this harsh and inhumane a place, and that poor people were always criminalized, and that sick people were punished for being sick, and old people were despised for living too long.

And they don't care.