http://themoderatevoice.com/26223/the-goverati/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 18:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/26223/the-goverati/comment-page-1/#comment-171688 DLS Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:32:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/26223/the-goverati/#comment-171688 Joe -- the _real_ operators are the Congressional staffers, the officials and operatives of the two major political parties, and lobbyists. Not these kids. These kids are simply the latest smug, self-absorbed kids who "adopted" tech to use as a style issue with their view, often elitist, of a better, liberal, Democratic-planned-and-managed world. As with their computer toys and software, so with how they view alternative energy, mass transit, etc., especially now with with the Goronic "global warming" fad constituting a political "bubble" bigger than past environmentalist causes when it comes to scope or extent of potential government interventionism. There actually is nothing new with these people, who believe they're a new phenomon just "discovered." We had the Atari Democrats in the 1980 and the Nintendo Democrats in the 1990s, who already were playing silly games (mainly mind games) with Goronic techno-futurism. The conceit of the latest kids is wholly misplaced. They aren't even in command, as Obama's Cabinet and other executive choices show. Joe — the _real_ operators are the Congressional staffers, the officials and operatives of the two major political parties, and lobbyists. Not these kids. These kids are simply the latest smug, self-absorbed kids who “adopted” tech to use as a style issue with their view, often elitist, of a better, liberal, Democratic-planned-and-managed world. As with their computer toys and software, so with how they view alternative energy, mass transit, etc., especially now with with the Goronic “global warming” fad constituting a political “bubble” bigger than past environmentalist causes when it comes to scope or extent of potential government interventionism. There actually is nothing new with these people, who believe they're a new phenomon just “discovered.” We had the Atari Democrats in the 1980 and the Nintendo Democrats in the 1990s, who already were playing silly games (mainly mind games) with Goronic techno-futurism. The conceit of the latest kids is wholly misplaced. They aren't even in command, as Obama's Cabinet and other executive choices show.

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