Burnt Orange Report

Grover

By Jim Dallas

A DailyKOS diarist notes that Grover Norquist looks at demographic trends, and smiles:

Each year, 2 million people who fought in the Second World War and lived through the Great Depression die. This generation has been an exeception in American history, because it has defended anti-American policies. They voted for the creation of the welfare state and obligatory military service. They are the base of the Democratic Party. And they are dying.

Norquist might have his own agenda, but I've heard at least a few Democratic big-wigs say the same thing (although, as one would hope, interpreting such facts with horror instead of glee).

But I see here a caveat. Our grandparents' generation didn't start voting for Democrats when they were old; they started voting for Democrats when they were our age.

(My inner Republican pundit sez: "I guess that's what smoking and voting have in common." But then again he's an idiot.)

At any rate, if you want to see the future, don't look at who's leaving a system, look who is entering into it.