Actually, you would be surprised.
There's some of us engaged in heavy-duty "research" of democraticunderground--soon we all should have our Ph.D.s in dummieology--and from what the members in there betray about themselves, the number of "kids" in there cannot possibly be more than 25%, if even that much.
The vast overwhelming bulk of the members of democraticunderground appear to be people born circa 1940-1965--man, at least 60% of them. These are not "kids" over there.
I will bet the median age of members of democraticunderground is circa 8-12 years higher than the median age of members of freerepublic.
In this thing which is going on right now--never mind the details; they're all over the place--the "leader" is a woman just three months shy of half a century old; old enough to be the Head Warden "Skinner"'s mother. And the followers, with only one known exception, were born between 1950-1960.
This is information gotten from their own mouths.
On the other side of the aisle, the side in favor of open and honest fund-raising, the "leader" is a guy in his late 20s, and while there are a couple of nice grandmothers involved, the "average" age of the participants is at least 10-15 years younger than the side opposed to open and honest fund-raising.
BABY BOOMERS. The worst generation. The only question I have is how did the "greatest generation" raise them, and what can we do to avoid their mistakes.