As Americans go to the polls tomorrow, one of the inevitable storylines that journalists and pundits will follow is that of generational conflict, particularly within the Democratic Party. What kind of showing will younger candidates make? And even more importantly, will young people turn out? How will their voting patterns differ from their elders? If large numbers of young people stay home, what will that mean about the future of the American political system? Are they merely rejecting the (older people’s) establishment, or are they rejecting democracy itself? Generational conflict has become so common a framing device for emerging political, Read more