The #1 story of the year is The Fight for the 21st Century.
The fight is between the past Industrial Age, best represented by the Tea Party, and the present-future Internet Age, best represented by Gen Y. It is NOT political. Trains and transportation are not inherently political, just like sewer systems (opposed by Democrats and Republicans 100 years ago) are not political.
Gen Y will have won the fight by 2020. The Tea Party probably will peak in 2012, but will remain influential until 2016, and will be a distant past history note by 2020. But for now, the fight is on, with the stakes being what America will look like in this century, as well as its prosperity.
Two weeks after we announced this at our annual Nine Shift speech in New Orleans December 3, Time Magazine agreed with our pick by making The Protester the Person of the Year.
Photo below: NineShift makes history again this year. Nine Shift co-author Julie Coates is a local and state leader of the protest and recall effort in Wisconsin, at the epicenter of the Fight for the 21st Century.
Time Magazine agreed with our pick by making The Protester the Person of the Year.
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Let's see, if the Tea Party crowd follows my estimate of the anti-rail crowd, they are mostly over 60--indeed, 60 seems almost a minimum age for the anti-rail bunch, suggesting the average age could be rather older. The actuality isn't quite that extreme for the Tea Party though, at least in 2010:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/14/us/politics/20100414-tea-party-poll-graphic.html?ref=politics#tab=9
Age doesn't stand out quite as much as I thought it would, but being white, registered as a Republican, and going to church all the time does.
Still, this bunch skews older along with the rest of what is here, and I wonder if part of your prediction of the Tea Party fading out is based on actuarial tables.
Do we really have to wait this out that long?
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