I get it---I'm old. One poster recently referred to DU as an "old folks home", or words to that

[Warpy]

41. We old fossils kept the faith and fought the good fight during some miserable decades

when the country lurched between GOP wingnuts and southern Democratic conservatives and a lot of damage was done to all of us. We took the worst economic changes on the chin, because they were mostly aimed at us, although the ones who came after us were also crushed under debt with purchasing power that went down every year because conservatives hate raising wages.

Yeah, we're fossils and we're still around, cluttering up the place. However, we remember how things were done before conservatives fucked everything up, how the country used to work when a day's work resulted in a day's wage that paid all the bills.

ETA: We old fossils are part of the reason Social Security and Medicaid still exist. People in their 20s hate them, people in their 30s tolerate them, and people in their 40s start to get the poing when they aint rich yet and know they probably won't be.