"Boomers seem very resistant to understanding that the living standards"....

[Tom Rinaldo]

72. More power to you. Literally.

"Generational wars", to the extent that they go on here, are tired and counterproductive. I come from a generation that once gave some credence to the expression "Don't trust anyone over thirty", but to the extent that ever had a grain of truth to it that revolved around social and cultural issues much more so than overtly political beliefs; the "sexual revolution", general freedom of expression, the rejection of knee jerk conformity - "Question Authority" - etc. We had our radicals and our reactionaries, and both sets left an impact on society.

I really enjoy your participation on DU, whether or not we always agree (we do much more so than not.) Thank you for hanging in here when age demographics on DU skew so heavily toward older generations. The strategic importance of younger voters and activists as a core constituency of the Democratic coalition tends not to be adequately acknowledged here much of the time. A portion of that "neglect", I think, is a holdover remnant from the fierce Sanders/Clinton primary wars raged on DU in 2016, when Bernie often identified his "revolution" with young voters.

Political identification tends to "lock in" when voters are young. The future of the Democratic Party, but much more importantly of America, is in the hands of people in your generation. If "they" fall away from actively embracing the Democratic Coalition, we all are screwed. DU needs more members speaking up on the importance of issues of specific concern to younger voters, and on the importance of youth organizing.