This could as easily go under politics
but there's no appropriate sub-category.
Child of the 60's here. I was a little too young to be very active at the time, but I've tried since. I march, I contribute, I vote. I vote in the mid-term and the off-season. Hell, I vote for school board.
My impression of my peers is - they've gotten old, they've gotten scared.
We changed the world. Laws, civil rights, women's rights, we ended the Vietnam war. We literally changed the world. What happened?
Some of us lost our nerve and their beliefs have gone with it. Change has become bad. The unfamiliar is probably worse than what's going to happen if we leave things alone. (Spoiler alert - it isn't.) We (not me) believe that they won't really come for us, just for those other people. We have something to lose, now (we actually don't) and we're going to protect it.
You have nothing to lose, but your fear. Yes, they are coming for you. They do mean you. They are - Not You. Not your kids. Not your grandkids.
Remember! We had a dream. We can still have it and we can still work for it. It hasn't gone away and it shouldn't.
We changed the world. They changed it back, but we're not dead yet. Remember what you did, and Do It Again!
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