“STRUGGLING YOUNG ADULTS POSE CHALLENGE FOR CAMPAIGNS” (September 20, 2012)

Thus The New York Times today. “Millions of working-class young adults, many in battleground states like Florida, Colorado, and Wisconsin, make up a potent but often overlooked voting bloc,” explains the newspaper. Well spotted. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had better think of ways of appeasing the “bloc” before it actually becomes one. Even better, the Congress and Senate had better think of ways of dealing with these millions of disaffected young people, not to mention the young males among them. They spell depression. And depression spells social unrest, not only in America, but also across the European Union and beyond. Now that revolution, socialist or otherwise, has become a mere pipedream, social unrest could come forth in even nastier forms. Much nastier. Powers that be neglect it at their peril.