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In reply to the discussion: Democrats' Move to the Right Profoundly Affects our Young People and Our Future. [View all]Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I'm another boomer here, wondering and hoping (yes, hoping!) that today's young folks will pick up the activist banner. I am given hope by observing the dreamer movement in Florida, still have hope the Occupy will continue in some form or another, and think the demonstrations in NC are uplifting. Heck, I wish I lived closer to Madison so I could sing! (I have been a part of many demonstrations and not yet arrested).
I can't recall exactly what prompted my thinking this, but one day I was getting out of my car at work and thinking "Wow, I think things (institutions were on my mind) have really declined since my youth. Have I lived through the peak of America?"
Now I know that it is not unusual for adults to look back and see things as rosier in their youth, and notice a decline, but really. Is the best we have now is an "You're on your own" mentality?
I can't get anything (appliances, TV, or whatever) fixed as now we live in a throw away culture, where it's cheaper to buy new and one is laughed at if they wish to have something repaired as opposed to new! new! new! . The response to any technical ailment is "turn it off, then turn it on again". Really? Is this some progress?
Do we have to 'turn off' the US and start it again to make it work? I don't think it's working. For a majority of us.
Sorry for the rambling rant.