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I emailed a friend today who wrote to me that he's PO'ed cause his meager middle-income salary places him in the Democrats' "Top 10%" who ought to be soaked, that the Democratic Party has been bankrupt and bereft of issues since the early 1960s. Tell me one Democrat program that has been instituted since Medicare? Clinton's midnight basketball, perhaps? But since the majority of Americans woke up in the mid-60s to the realization that government was not the solution to every problem, the Democrats haven't come evolved to the new reality. What they have done, however, is eeked out occasional electoral victories nationally primarily by appealing to the Baby Boom generation -- arguably the most self-absorbed and irresponsible generation of the last century, if not ever. The Dems have appealed to this cohort through policies that are self-centered and irresponsible. As the Boomers start to age and become supplanted by more pragmatic younger generations, the Republican Party (if it projects it's message clearly) will become as unassailable a majority party as the Democrats were in the 1930's and '40s. So goes my theory.