Maher's Mask Slips: Punching Down While the Republic Burns

[Hekate]

69. That's some broad brush right there. When some complain about the age of DUers -- we are Boomers

My generation watched our high school and college friends get marched off to a war so deadly they called it a “meat grinder” — the best singer in my high school and a friend’s brother who’d just gotten a Master’s degree, both dead. Drafted and dead, like 50,000 others.

And we, those “lucky lazy” Boomers, took to the streets, got involved in politics, and stayed aware. The top 1% remains in power as it always has, and 99% of us are not in the top 1%.

But people like John Kerry returned and as a young man told the Senators: How do you tell the mother of the last one to die that her son died for a mistake? (Paraphrased)

So who do you think populates DU to this day? None of us are in the highest levels of power, but most of us started our activism and volunteerism when we were young.

Alas, how lazy we are. I guess I and my cohort should just give up.