Be Patient

Time is the treatment of choice for most minor ills and discomforts. It’s equally efficacious, though it takes longer, in curing the follies and fervencies of youth.

The Pew Research Center has determined that the Millennial generation, those under thirty, is the largest group (as a percentage – 29%), of self-described liberals.

“In every other age group, Pew notes, far more describe themselves as conservatives rather than liberals”.

Progressives (Democrats with a philosophy as well as an agenda) are being reminded, most recently, in a column by E. J. Dionne Jr., not to neglect the Millennials, a politically perishable commodity.

Significantly seduced, by the charisma candidacy of Obama ’08, their enthusiasm has waned.

This was to be expected. Obama, then brimming with promise, was more impressive, backlit on a great stage, framed by fluted columns, than sunlit, amidst the litter of broken promises.

The Democrats understand there are mid-term and long-term consequences to the de facto defection of their most gullible constituency.

The greatest concentration of Liberals, is to be found (not coincidentally) among the young (18-29), naïve and ignorant, a mix of temporary and potentially remediable conditions.

The interesting question for the Democrats is, can they arrest the natural maturation of judgment that time and experience typically confer?

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