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It would be folly to predict the outcome of the general at such an early stage, but if anything, the unprecedented increase in voter turnout among boomers and up signals what long has been suspected to be true–moderates are a dying breed in the Democratic party, and the future very much smiles brightly towards progressives. In the here and now though, this eagerness by the old to play pundit and collectively decide who’s electable and vote for them to dwarf younger turnout is feeding into a deep fissure within the party–young people are known to exhibit less signs of strong party affiliation, and this means if anything, that both major parties in America are starting to revolve around the interests of the old, much to the peril of the young.
For Republicans, the calculus is much easier to parse out–conservatism is a more compelling wholesale to a generation that grew up on a strict diet of chronic despair, dooming them to solidly become the party of the disaffected as hopes of a better future are getting fainter by the day. Democrats are frighteningly heading into that same direction–the old think they’re saving the young from themselves by emulating a pattern of voting that has historically been the harbinger of great catastrophe, while the young are getting fed up…
