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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:00 PM Apr 2015

I'm a boomer, I was raised on desperate long shots on achieving social causes, [View all]

Bernie Sanders, and Elizatbeth Warren appeal to the idealistic core of what we hoped for.

Go ahead, tell me Bernie and/or Elizabeth are impossibilities in the political landscape.

So was the attempt of a demure woman dying of breast cancer to take down Dow Chemical and the use of DDT in America.

So was the anti-Vietnam war movement, now long vindicated...

SO WAS A REPUBLICAN signing into law and administering the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

And I do remember the Mets long tenure in the basement of baseball. Look at them now!

The impossible, isn't really impossible It just takes a bit more imagination and a willful suspension of belief that only establishment ideas work.

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I'm a boomer, I was raised on desperate long shots on achieving social causes, [View all] HereSince1628 Apr 2015 OP

We will all know soon enough who is the Dem upaloopa Apr 2015 #1

I fully expect an exhuberant clash equal to 2008. HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #7

Not me I will not be here if it is like that upaloopa Apr 2015 #8

There was also a time when the Surgeon General said Cigarettes were good for you, and there was Vincardog Apr 2015 #2

Yep. HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #4

Optimism and hope are not dead. One pulled cotter pin can break the whole machine! Dont call me Shirley Apr 2015 #3

That's all over whatchamacallit Apr 2015 #5

Maybe but don't count on that. There is no political equivalent to a watch escapement HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #9

Viva la revolution! n/t whatchamacallit Apr 2015 #17

Hear, hear! nt F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #27

I'm a Boomer and I remember Nixon OKNancy Apr 2015 #6

Me too. THe sucker signed the Clean Water and Clean Air acts and put Ruckleshaus HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #11

yes, of course I am aware of that. I am also aware that he did it totally as a political move OKNancy Apr 2015 #14

Oh he was a b'st'rd, but WE LEFT HIM WITH NO CHOICE!! HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #16

This boomer will never defend Nixon. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2015 #18

My dad, born in 1909, said he'd never trust Nixon hifiguy Apr 2015 #21

I'm not at all defending Nixon. I think "WE" forced him into doing the impossible HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #22

I'm a boomer and I remember the feeling in the 70's that we could do anything dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #26

I am a boomer and I once knew the boomer who wrote part of the assembly language LiberalArkie Apr 2015 #29

+ Infinity Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #30

There is a SUBSTANTIAL difference between those and Bernie Sanders getting elected brooklynite Apr 2015 #10

What else boomers share? Knowledge that "Fear is the Mind Slayer" HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #13

"Boomer" here. H2O Man Apr 2015 #12

I think many of the favorite movies/books of boomers share that. HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #15

I was raised by a Boomer Piasladic Apr 2015 #19

Fighting the good fight, even when the odds are impossible pinboy3niner Apr 2015 #24

If I could vote for George McGovern Dyedinthewoolliberal Apr 2015 #20

When I was 16 I went around sticking McGovern literature hifiguy Apr 2015 #23

I got to vote in my first general election by absentee ballot, from Vietnam. HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #25

I was too young to vote Generic Other May 2015 #34

Long lineage of union working folk, democrats. I was a young toddler when JFK Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #28

It isn't about "being impossible", it's really about NorthCarolina Apr 2015 #31

It sometimes seems it's about TRYING to convince us of that... HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #32

Gen-X here, and i feel the same way. nashville_brook May 2015 #33

This is the type of thread that makes DU RobertEarl May 2015 #35

The Labor Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage Movement were all liberal_at_heart May 2015 #36