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CynKyr's avatar

Do you think we don’t know? Believe it or not, young ones are not born with all the knowledge of the world. It is gained through years of hard work. Those of us who have lived more than 7 decades learned stuff along the way. We learned that Democracy must be defended and earned constantly. We also learned how to defend it and accomplished a lot but nothing is static and forces that would undermine all the work we have done continue to work against it. If each generation does not join the fight and pull its fair share, Democracy dies. I am working still and going out and demonstrating and volunteering for behind the scenes stuff few people know is even happening. Our generation fought in the Civil Rights Movement, against VietNam War, drove a President to resign, and saved Old Growth Redwoods and other Ecologies. Do you think I like seeing all our work being torn down, sold off, killed off? We are tired. We need the ones who stand to inherit the World to close their computers occasionally and see the real world. And earn your Democracy as we had to earn ours. Fight your fights. But Don’t blame us. “We didn’t start the fire”.

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Every demonstration I have attended (Hands Off, NO Kings) has had an over-65 component way in excess of our proportion of the national population. We came of age through the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Use your strength to organize us. We completely understand what the regime is attempting and are fully motivated to stand in the way.

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