Tuesday, March 3, 2009

what's wrong with voters under 30

Insightful comment from user Amor de Cosmos on the Contentions blog over at Commentary:

We tend to forget that there is a generation of voters who never knew 1970’s America. They have lived in the relative prosperity brought about by Reaganism. They have not known punitive taxation, stifling regulation, and the cold hand of bureaucracy. They are about to learn the price of Utopia.

(Peter Wehner's post that prompted the comment is also worthwhile, on our new president's determination to undo every aspect of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution.)

You can learn from other people's mistakes (which requires historical memory), or from your own (i.e., from experience). As the old Yiddish proverb has it, Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

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