Dana Milbank, who is about a year and a half older than I am, is morose about our generation. I think he’s off base. Now in our mid-forties, the people of our generation are only beginning to assume positions of power. We didn’t bring America the War on Terror. We certainly didn’t invent the Tea Party, which is primarily made up of old farts who don’t realize that their Medicare is a federal program. Our generation is going to fix this shit and hand off something better to the next generation, which is the one that is going to really transform this country for the better. We’re just suffering from the death throes of a vanishing America, and we’re not going to miss much of it.
