Reply #206: What about those of us who,

[Oak2004]

still being far from retirement age, do NOT think we're obsolete, and who don't see why a generation identified (by the media, anyway) for its love of Wall Street and the Republican Party ought to prematurely push us from the political scene?

Sorry. No. Not even rephrasing it "nicely" will make it sound any better than what it is. It's called "ageism" -- a type of bigotry.

And while I think identifying people by the year of their birth is stupid -- in reality, you find every shade of person in every generation -- if you're going to try to play the game of stereotyping people by their generation, offering up "greedy Republicans" as an alternative to "unwashed hippie antiwar demonstrators" to solve the crises of our times is, well, mind-boggling.