The Rise of the Adolescent Mind

Victor Davis Hanson "There are lots of issues involved in Wisconsin, in the impending financial and fuel crises, and in the sense of American impotency abroad. Yet a common denominator is a national adolescence, in which we want what we have not earned. We demand the world be the way that it cannot; and we don’t wish to hear “unfair” arguments from “bad” and “mean” people."
Then along come folk singers who portray these adolescent-minded people as if they were depression-era hobos,  lined up at soup kitchens and wept over by the ghost of Tom Joad

Union protestors as portrayed by Bruce Springsteen