[meadsjn]

Thanks for the ping. This train has been runaway for years and the Boomers and post-GI Silents have been dismantling the bridge to the 21st century for the last couple of decades. Avoiding a crash will be most unlikely.

There is hope. In 2000, the Boomers and older silents had a combined total of 122,627,672 eligible voters. Their numbers will only get less as they die off.

In 2000, the Gen-X and Gen-Y population had a combined total of 71,551,276 eligible voters.

In 2004, the Gen-X and Gen-Y population will have a combined total of 87,643,964 eligible voters.

In 2008, the Gen-X and Gen-Y population will have a combined total of 104,119,805 eligible voters. This will probably be the pivot point where the Boomer elite will lose influence over public policy, forever.

In 2012, the Gen-X and Gen-y population will have a combined total of 120,704,207 eligible voters, and will be very unlikely to share any power with the older generations that totally shredded the economy and the culture, and sacrificed the sovereignty of the US for political points and campaign cash.

Younger voters today are more conservative and nationalistic than any generation we have known since WW-II, and they will get more so as the crisis deepens. The oldest Gen-Xers have been in the workforce since 1982 or 1983. The oldest Gen-Y citizens started entering the workforce in 2002 or 2003. What these younger people have seen is that the policies of business and government has been anti-merit, anti-American, counter-productive, overly complex and under-effective, and they have watched as the fabric of our culture and economy has been unraveled. They have watched as the boomers wasted millions after millions on technology projects that failed because complexity and process were favored over success.

When the crisis settles in solidly, with little room left to debate that it really is a crisis, we can expect these two younger generations to strongly exert their growing influence to pull the nation out of the hole. It will be a repeat of the two Generations that pulled the nation through the Great Depression and World War II.

It will be interesting times.

[meadsjn]

One more consideration: Of the 14,344,217 remaining WW-II Hero generation that can still make it to the polls, they will overwelmingly vote with the younger generations that are replaying their roles from the high point of their lives.

[qam1]

Check out the statistics in post #114 & #115

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[qam1]

Thanks for the ping and excellent summary.

Though the only thing is older people tend to vote more and this will probably be true of the baby boomers and since many of them haven't saved they will be demanding more and more to keep their life style so I don't think the baby boomers will start to lose power until Gen-X and more specifically Gen-Y ages a little more.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

In 2008, the Gen-X and Gen-Y population will have a combined total of 104,119,805 eligible voters. This will probably be the pivot point where the Boomer elite will lose influence over public policy, forever.

Great...just in time for HilaryCare! /sarcasm