Nursing homes and the Tea Party of Palin and Beck

Perhaps if Americans treated their elders better the American elderly wouldn’t be so bitter.

But when you alienate an entire community, they will eventually turn to the politics of alienation: of fear and loathing, rather than honor and hope.

postscript: Will we get political sloganeering that calls out the White Hairs as a voting bloc, irrespective of race, gender or, perhaps, even class? And will they honor the political tradition of previous Whigs?