Y'all are gonna have to go on without me. I'm 81, and I've fought...

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albacore (2,596 posts)

Y'all are gonna have to go on without me. I'm 81, and I've fought...
since 1964, and I've got no more fight left in me.
I fought in Vietnam, protested that war - and the other loser wars, protested nukes, protested for choice, and I worked for and voted every time for the good guys.
I'm tired. And depressed, of course.
Oh, I post nasty memes on FB, but I won't hit the streets, and I won't become a keyboard commando. Argument is senseless at this point, and I don't even know if I'll make it to the next election, so I'm bowing out.
You young whippersnappers are going to figure out what to do with the country when trump and then Vance are done with it.
You'll have to figure out what will not only bring young people to progressive causes, but also what will get them to actually vote for those causes. I apparently lack the knowledge of what stirs the young.
I taught high school history for 30 years, and I've never learned or taught about the things we are experiencing.
Not my country anymore.
Fight on, my fellow DU'ers

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219735174

Get the violin out

[SVPete]

 

[FaC]

albacore (2,596 posts)

Y'all are gonna have to go on without me. I'm 81, and I've fought...
since 1964, and I've got no more fight left in me.
I fought in Vietnam, protested that war - and the other loser wars, protested nukes, protested for choice, and I worked for and voted every time for the good guys.
I'm tired. And depressed, of course.
Oh, I post nasty memes on FB, but I won't hit the streets, and I won't become a keyboard commando. Argument is senseless at this point, and I don't even know if I'll make it to the next election, so I'm bowing out.
You young whippersnappers are going to figure out what to do with the country when trump and then Vance are done with it.
You'll have to figure out what will not only bring young people to progressive causes, but also what will get them to actually vote for those causes. I apparently lack the knowledge of what stirs the young.
I taught high school history for 30 years, and I've never learned or taught about the things we are experiencing.
Not my country anymore.
Fight on, my fellow DU'ers

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219735174

12 years is a long time from now

[SVPete]

12 years is a long time from now

Yeah, The Fishy One seems not to expect to be a future nonagenarian.