ACLU prohibited from joining gang rap case

[Tsiyu]

60. Oh, I think there are many problems

and they are severe problems, with horrific, life-altering consequences.

Telling us the wealthy will only be motivated to help their country if we coddle them and let them make lots of money, and then telling the working person that their incentive should be a "work ethic" and not a paycheck, is just dumb commentary on so many levels - from those trying to sell it STILL and from those who bought it, hook, line and sinker.

When I hear working people my age say that a living wage is a horrible idea, I realize there is no hope.

My generation - boomers - are big into conformity, aside from the few hippies of the older boomer years. They believe in following a set pattern, dressing a certain way, image, image, image. You raise a family, you drive a nice stodgy car in your later years. They were like babes in the woods to Madison Avenue, and still are.

Some Boomers are cool, like the ones on DU. Most that I know are either apathetic political no-nothings, or conservative idiots who watch FOX. Not all, mind you. My friends are not that way, but overall, I have no faith in the generation that just sat there and did mostly NOTHING to protect future generations' rights.

Boomers didn't do shit but help elect Reagan, then the Bushes. Not all Boomers, mind you, but enough that you can't count on them as a group to get up and change anything as long as they're comfy and have those stodgy cars.

The reason things have gotten so awful in some places as far as rights is that older people sat in their homes and said nothing. And if you're brave enough to ever say anything, people my age look at you like you're nuts. They try to talk you out of speaking up for the downtrodden. You're supposed to cower in your home in fear, I guess.

But that's not the country I was sold.

Edit to add: Still, I get up every day and the town is working and shops are open and the neighbor is taking a walk and the roads are salted and the schoolbuses are safely carrying kids. Most people in my area are working class or poor, but we mostly get along, try to care for one another. I don't think my community is unique.

There are a lot of good things going on, but the bad things cannot continue.