Talkin' Bout My Generation

There's only so much a person can take and I've had enough of it. Politics that is.
The only message I've heard from politicians since August is how important it is for me to get out and vote. Vote for change, vote to keep things the same, to save America from the Muslim hordes, to save America from the Republicans, to stop the Communists. It's just vote, vote, vote, vote. And I am done!
It has been trumpeted from the hilltops for two years now that my generation, the college age people, are the ones who helped put President Obama into office. And now that the mid-term elections are coming up the politicians are coming at us like Jehovah Witnesses on crack. My question is this: Where were you before we put a president into office?
Granted, my generation was to young to vote in the last 2000 and 2004 elections but the generation that was in college at the time was ignored and over looked for the always dependable baby boomers and their elders. Who cares about college kids?
Of course after the elections were over the Democrats were all to quick to mark us as the liberal voting machine. While I can say that I am pretty liberal I don't appreciate being labeled and the go to guy for Democrats. I have my own brain. Now, people are asking why does this generation not care about the mid-terms. This election will most likely see the end of the Democrats control over the House of Representatives and severely weaken Obama's ability to form a strong coalition to pass his ideas. So why don't we care? We've been disenfranchised.
I'm not stupid. I know that politics is a dish served instantly. The best way to describe politics using a food metaphor is by comparing it to baking a potato. Put it in the oven and take it out a week later and find out it's still cool. If you want to advance anywhere in the political game you have to be patient and realize that change of a major kind is not going to simply happen in two years. You have to keep pushing. However, when even your small victories are destroyed it really starts to burn you up.
For those who voted and cheered for Obama our biggest victory so far has been health care. But, now a judge has allowed 10 states to file suite against the bill meaning that it might be disregarded all together. How are we suppose to feel about that? Our hopes, ideas, and even our victories have been trampled upon by a political circus that calls us communists and draws Hitler mustaches on the president. Damn straight, I'm looking at you Teabaggers. But when we disagreed with former-President Bush we were labeled as un-American and promptly told that if we didn't like the country that we could go find another place to live.
The thing is, my generation loves America. We've fought for it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we voted in a way that we believed would help to make it better. We voted for change. The problem is not that change has not been sought, it's that it hasn't been allowed.
The fact of the matter is my generation is the defining factor of this country. And it hurts me that those older than us or those who lost elections because of us would crucify us because of our believes. They push a crown of thorns down on our brow and call us the king of socialists. And they will happily release their demons to put us up on a cross.
So, people ask why do we not care. It's not that we don't care. It's that no matter how much we try to make our voices heard, in the end we're ignored.