Democrats' Move to the Right Profoundly Affects our Young People and Our Future.

[90-percent]

63. I'm also a boomer

One profound point I learned somewhere on DU is the absolute height of middle class prosperity in America was in 1965. I was 11 years old and took everything in my middle class existence for granted.

My generation now runs almost everything and I'm amazed at how much they wrecked it. Can't get much worse than creating the impending doom of global climate change. Not to mention just how miserable life is currently for the non-wealthy.

One thing in the 60's that made us all activists is THE DRAFT and the Viet Nam war.

But, in the boom years there was a lot more FAIRNESS in all our institutions. Post WW2 was the job-for-life social contract and jobs for anybody that wanted them.

We should be advancing. Collectivism I'm convinced is the natural order of things for the human animal. We enjoy the most prosperity working as groups. This everyman for himself and I got mine and screw you is a complete aberration in the order of things.

Obama's extremely corporate friendly actions are disappointing, but we must not be discouraged. We simply have to work harder to make things right and advance the well being of the species. The clear goal is simply life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Remember, the PTB WANT US TO GIVE UP AND STOP PARTICIPATING AND BE WELL INFORMED.

To quote my hero Frank Zappa; "First, don't stop. Second, keep going."

You never know what effect your chat at the check out line or your liberal bumper sticker is going to have. It was not until the Berlin wall came down that Zappa and the west found out how crucial his records were to the eastern European revolution. Mothers music was an anthem to them and his music was violently repressed. "We're going to BEAT THE ZAPPA OUT OF YOU"

This is a center left country. The people that run it are merely servants of the selfish wealthy that have captured our government. And I still have hope for the Occupy movement.

-90% Jimmy