John Pavlovitz: If we really loved our country...we'd be in the streets by millions now

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Maybe.

I demonstrated for months against the invasion of Afghanistan (remind me again how they instigated 9/11?). My husband went to NYC for a very large demonstration there (he was even in a clip on CNN!) and it did NOTHING.

No one in the administration gave a flying fuck about the hundreds of thousands in this country or the millions around the world who protested.

I've been saying for years now that there should be rioting in the streets about many of the things that the Republicans do. But it doesn't seem to matter.

Oh, I'll vote Democratic every time. I'll support someone running for President, maybe volunteer for their campaign, and will vote the whatever Democrat eventually gets the nomination.

But we have party leadership that keeps on playing along with the status quo. And people here defend that, saying we need their experience. The fuck we do. It's the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg who are the future. She's too young, and he's fighting an uphill battle against his youth and gayness, but four or eight years from now?

All of the Baby Boomers (of which I'm one) need to retire and leave the running of this country to the younger generations.