I am a young, young person who is trying very hard
"A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it."

— _ Matt Taibbi, “The Truth About the Tea Party” (Rolling Stone, Sept. 2010)