Political analysts note that there aren’t any Gen X-era big-name Democrats following Baby Boomers Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They anticipate that leadership will skip Gen X from the Boomers to their Millennial children. Meanwhile, middle-aged Gen X whites are suffering increased mortality reminiscent of the post-Soviet collapse during the 1990s. Turns out that a lifetime of neglect and contempt by those older and younger is having an effect.
Generation Hexed
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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50 years old and I don’t fit in anywhere.
Gen X.
Bernie is a War Baby, not a a Boomer. Born during the Second World War – as was I. The Boomers, etc. may be drinking & smoking & overeating themselves into early graves, but I’m not expecting to go anywhere for quite a while yet myself, and I trust the same is true of Bernie.
Amazing, given the plethora of wars that have been going on without interruption since that time, that when we speak of «the War», most of us still refer to WW II, I guess it will take WW III to replace WW II in the our mythology ; i e, in the event that any survivors will be left to create one, which this War Baby doubts….
Henri
Just a few Gen X people in the Democratic Party:
President Obama
Chairwoman of the Democratic Party Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Governor Martin O’Malley, candidate for President
Other “up and comers” off the top of my head:
Julian Castro
Gavin Newsom
Cory Booker
Kamala Harris
Kirsten Gillibrand
The head of the party and the sitting President are both Gen X, the party does not have a problem with that generation. The fact that no one wants to make a primary challenge run against Hillary is not proof of anything other than Hillary has been spending the better part of a decade consolidating her chances and no one wants to be the candidate that lost to Hillary in the primary.
«The fact that no one wants to make a primary challenge run against Hillary is not proof of anything other than Hillary has been spending the better part of a decade consolidating her chances and no one wants to be the candidate that lost to Hillary in the primary.» Not living in your country, auandi, I must confess that I often find your brand of politics confusing at best, but I am under the distinct impression that there do, in fact, exist people who are challenging Ms Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for US president in 2016….
Please enlighten ….
Henri