> Though I'll be damned if I know how
> representative I am of younger people; when talking with friends and
> aquaintences in the last few months, I've received gasps of disbelief,
> howls
> of protest, and at least one middle finger when I've criticised Obama and
> the Dems.
>
well, that's the thing. i don't think i was representative of young-ish people turning away from the dems in those days. that's where i think maybe it's optimistic. but hey, it's what we've got, right now. for the people who actually care, like you do, about the domestic agenda, at some point they've got to see that a dem in the white house is not, at the end of the day, what's going to fix things. it's just not.