See, The Right, as I’m calling them for the sake of an easy pun, have an image problem. This snap, stolen from Flikr thanks to Chicky Yog, shows some highly optimistic Pro-Capitalism G20 protestors. Chicky calls them, “masters of the universe.”

… which strikes me as odd. These guys don’t look like masters of the universe to me. 

Some people look at these lads and see Capitalists of the Future, or Elitist Snobs… especially the one on the far left – he looks far too respectable with his resplendant spectacles. 

But you want to know what I see? I see a bunch of Dorks. Nerds. Geeks. The suits don’t fool me, even Mr Fancy Pants there.  See, geeks and nerds are, well… they’re my kind of people, if I’m honest. I like big brains. Pfft, there’s worse things to like. 

But the suits? Sheesh. I get that they wanted to stand out from the crowd, but these pictures are painful. If your point is that The Establishment is actually statist and left wing, then why adorn yourselves in the trappings of The Establishment? I won’t elaborate on this. Alix Mortimer already covered the nerve shredding sight of yoof in ties in great detail before I did.

Why are younger people more left wing than older people? Maybe it takes a lot more guts for an 18 year old to say, “hey, I wanna be friends with those guys” than it does for a 32 year old curmudgeon who, really, couldn’t be cool if she tried.