No Runny Eggs

The “Lost Generation” is a term that often refers to the generation of literary greats that moved to Europe following WWI.   Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound are some of the names included in this group.

Another definition of the “Lost Generation” refers to the generation of people coming of age during and shortly after WWI.   According to Wikipedia:

The “Lost Generation” was said to be disillusioned by the large number of casualties of the First World War, cynical, disdainful of the notions of morality and propriety of their elders and ambivalent about 19th-century gender ideals.

With Hillary Clintons “comeback” wins of Tuesday night, I think the Democratic party has a chance to create the 20th Century version of the Lost Generation.

With the regular delegate count close, and no viability of getting  “over the top” with the remaining primaries, the  Democratic nominee will be chosen at their convention.   It also appears that  barring a reversal of  the trend, Barack Obama will go into that convention with  having won the majority of the states, a lead in the regular delegate count a possibly a majority of the popular vote and the support of a large majority of Democratic voters under the age of 30.  

At the Democratic convention, the Super Delegates will ultimately decide who the Democratic nominee will be.   As I’ve heard countless times in the past 48 hours, regardless of what they may say in the meantime, the Super Delegate’s  vote doesn’t matter until it is cast.   Also, as I’ve heard countless times in the past 48 hours, they are being reminded that they are to “vote their conscience.”   Usually the “vote your conscience” line is coming from people aligned with the Hillary campaign.

So imagine this:

Barack Obama walks into the convention with what, to most people, looks like a democratic (small d not large D) victory.    I think most  people would expect the Super Delegates to confirm “The will of the people” and confirm his nomination.   What happens if Hill and Bill are able to (for the sixth or seventh time) sell their souls to the devil and manage to get the Super Delegates to swing their way.   What if,  rather than anointing the messiah, the Super Delegates  vote to complete the coronation of the Lady of Inevitability?

For those of us with a few political years under our saddles, we’d look at the coronation of the Lady of Inevitability as politics as usual.   After all, liberals are nothing if not people for “what makes sense”, usually doesn’t.   However, what   will happen to the under 30 crowd?   The crowd for whom the euphoria of the promises of the messiah  have allowed them to wake up each day and exist?   Do you think they would take this as “politics as usual?”

If Hillary  is able to win  the nomination from Barack Obama via the Super Delegate votes, the under 30 crowd will become so disillusioned, so jaded by the view of the nomination having been “stolen” or “fixed” via “smoked filled rooms”, not only will they not turn out for the general election in November, they may well avoid being involved in the political process for elections to come.   While this would be a loss for the electoral process as a whole, it could be a devastating loss to the Democrats.   Imagine what an entire  “Lost Generation” might mean to the Democratic Party.