“So, you kids think you should have something to hope for? THINK AGAIN, PUNKS!”
“Your leader isn’t going to do anything he pledged to do! Yeah, that’s right. Did you hear? Did you hear he didn’t say public option more than 2 times in his big health care speech? That means he’s not going to fight for it! Yeah, that’s right. You should just give up now. That’s what you get for not organizing and making Hillary Clinton the POTUS like we wanted you to. We want OUR OWN to be president, not some snotty little tweener/Gen X punk like Obama.”
“So what if the boat hasn’t even cleared the dock on this new administration? We’re jumping ship. Yeah, that’s right. We’re OUTTA HERE! You better bet that Obama loves the banks more than you! He’s sold out completely, just like we all did in the 80’s when we realized love and peace didn’t let us afford nice cars and pimp houses in nice neighborhoods. But we kept it real, man, we always smoked pot out in our BMW SUVs and in our perfectly manicured backyards, bought it from our buddy Gerrold from the health club after a furious game of squash.”
“You think he’s going to fight for you? THINK AGAIN! We know how things work. After all, we’re the epitome of selling our souls out. That’s just how things work now. We fought against the Vietnam War by smoking pot and drinking cheap wine in the park. Wearing flowers and dirty clothes. Pretending to be stereotypical Native Americans. Pretending how to play folk guitar. Yeah, we were keeping it real, and that’s why we could justify buying that SUV years later, complaining about capital gains taxes, and voting for Ronald Reagan. We set the rules, you silly little kids, and don’t you forget it.”
“Yeah, that’s right, college kids. You stay home, you shut up, and you better regret you did all that work for “that man” who wasn’t picked by us. We wanted to hold him up like an icon, like Jesse Jackson, so we could say “see? We have African-American heroes here on the left that ran for President! That justifies our WASPiness!” You get your heads back into the dirt and you think about what you did, because we didn’t approve of you turning some of us over and getting some of us to support your token leader. We wanted one of our types to promise us stuff and not deliver, just like we loved about Bill Clinton. But he sure could play a wicked sax!”
“You silly little kids with your “hope” and your “change”. We’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen. It offends us. We got rid of our “hope” in the 1970’s when Nixon lied to us, even though we knew he was a phony. We lost our “hope” in the late 1970’s when Jimmy Carter was the Pres because of the recession that occurred around his time, even though those of us who were sensible knew it wasn’t his fault (paying back that Vietnam War debt had to be steep). We sold out and voted for Reagan. And frankly, at this point in our lives, change offends us. We don’t want that. We understand our parents now. We want to make this thing work for us as long as it can so that we can die comfortably. Whatever happens to you, well, ehhh, you can just cope.”
“So you stupid kids stay the hell home and don’t you DARE turn out and try to recreate that movement that you did last year. Don’t you DARE create a movement to push Obama to spend more money to try and right the ship. We’ve got ours. It’s not our problem if you don’t. What, you didn’t make a fortune off the dot coms? OOOH, so sorry. Well, these things happen. You stay the hell home and deal with it and stop risking what we’ve got. We want to live our golden days comfortably. We deserve it. After all, WE protested VIETNAM. That gives us the RIGHT.”