Yes, and I think we have a perspective on this country that younger folks don't have have. I have seen some terrible things in my lifetime (1968 stands out in my mind as a particularly bad year) but nothing like this. I fear for my children and grandchildren most of all. As for me, all I am interested in is fighting back as much as I can against these bastards.
I had a work friend whose hobby was 1968. Articles, books, movies, TV shows, newsтАжhe was always fascinated by 1968 (even though he was too young to have been born that year, much less remember it first-hand.) If the nation (and we) survive Trump, this era may be as fascinating to future historians as Nazi Germany or the Civil War, and we may play a part in it.
тАЬIf you would not be forgotten when you are dead and rotten, then either do the things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading.тАЭ -Ben Franklin
I just hope that we will have historians in the future who will be able to freely write and publish about the time that we are living in. Another reason why it is so important that we document as much as possible.
In my lifetime brave civil rights workers were beaten or murdered in the south. Protesters were killed at Kent State. An FBI director literally kept kompromat on politicians. I assume these have happened in your lifetime as well.
As the children of those times I trust weтАЩve been тАЬtaught wellтАЭ and will resist our times becoming worse than those times. I donтАЩt believe weтАЩre there yet.
I hate to say it, but we've grown too fat, lazy, and complacent sitting in our A/C cooled houses, coked up on TikTok and Netflix. I'll argue, we are here now because on the one hand, we don't want to do the hard work; on the other hand, we're bored to the point of stupor. If we are unwilling to act, to risk some pain and loss, then we should expect nothing less than what is clearly coming.
"Our time" is already worse than the 60s because everything we learned from those days, everything we spent our lives trying to change, is being erased. Kent State? Now we have a President just waiting for a chance to turn the US Army against the American people at the first sign of a protest march. Corrupt FBI Director? I'll raise you with a corrupt and incompetent FBI Director just itching to do whatever Trump wants whether it is legal or not. Everything civil rights workers sacrificed to achieve is on the chopping block. The environment we tried to save is open for plunder again. Rachel Carson is turning over in her grave.
Right. Trump is also "similar age". I've met more Trumps than i'd have liked over the years and it's always baffled me how they could get that old and *not* accumulate wisdom and self-confidence. Now i'm old too, it baffles me even more.
Yes. Although I was only a child, the most shocking event of my lifetime is still the assassination of JFK. It was kind of a death of innocence for me, that something like that could actually happen in the USA. I mentioned 1968 before as one that sticks out in my mind as a terrible year - the Vietnam war (Tet offensive), the USS Pueblo seized by North Korea, the RFK and MLK assassinations, riots at the Democratic Convention, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
I hadn't thought my retirement years would be spent agonizing about oligarchs and authoritarian morons
Yep another mess the boomers left their grandkids to clean up?? If thats even possible... Thanks.......
And worrying about the lives of my grandchildren.
This. I'm expendable, my kid and their future kids are not.
Yes, and I think we have a perspective on this country that younger folks don't have have. I have seen some terrible things in my lifetime (1968 stands out in my mind as a particularly bad year) but nothing like this. I fear for my children and grandchildren most of all. As for me, all I am interested in is fighting back as much as I can against these bastards.
I had a work friend whose hobby was 1968. Articles, books, movies, TV shows, newsтАжhe was always fascinated by 1968 (even though he was too young to have been born that year, much less remember it first-hand.) If the nation (and we) survive Trump, this era may be as fascinating to future historians as Nazi Germany or the Civil War, and we may play a part in it.
тАЬIf you would not be forgotten when you are dead and rotten, then either do the things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading.тАЭ -Ben Franklin
I just hope that we will have historians in the future who will be able to freely write and publish about the time that we are living in. Another reason why it is so important that we document as much as possible.
In my lifetime brave civil rights workers were beaten or murdered in the south. Protesters were killed at Kent State. An FBI director literally kept kompromat on politicians. I assume these have happened in your lifetime as well.
As the children of those times I trust weтАЩve been тАЬtaught wellтАЭ and will resist our times becoming worse than those times. I donтАЩt believe weтАЩre there yet.
I hate to say it, but we've grown too fat, lazy, and complacent sitting in our A/C cooled houses, coked up on TikTok and Netflix. I'll argue, we are here now because on the one hand, we don't want to do the hard work; on the other hand, we're bored to the point of stupor. If we are unwilling to act, to risk some pain and loss, then we should expect nothing less than what is clearly coming.
"Our time" is already worse than the 60s because everything we learned from those days, everything we spent our lives trying to change, is being erased. Kent State? Now we have a President just waiting for a chance to turn the US Army against the American people at the first sign of a protest march. Corrupt FBI Director? I'll raise you with a corrupt and incompetent FBI Director just itching to do whatever Trump wants whether it is legal or not. Everything civil rights workers sacrificed to achieve is on the chopping block. The environment we tried to save is open for plunder again. Rachel Carson is turning over in her grave.
Sadly, I know far too many people of similar age that didn't learn shit from those lessons.
Right. Trump is also "similar age". I've met more Trumps than i'd have liked over the years and it's always baffled me how they could get that old and *not* accumulate wisdom and self-confidence. Now i'm old too, it baffles me even more.
Yes. Although I was only a child, the most shocking event of my lifetime is still the assassination of JFK. It was kind of a death of innocence for me, that something like that could actually happen in the USA. I mentioned 1968 before as one that sticks out in my mind as a terrible year - the Vietnam war (Tet offensive), the USS Pueblo seized by North Korea, the RFK and MLK assassinations, riots at the Democratic Convention, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Golden years already tarnishing.