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In reply to the discussion: To the older folks at DU from a 20-year-old, about protests, confusion, and love for one another [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)when I was young and foolish I considered myself to be a smart young man.
Even before that J.D. Salinger wrote something like "A young man wants to boldly die for a cause while an old man wants to humbly live for one."
If your only position is that something needs to change, then you seem to need to go study and figure out exactly what is supposed to change, and how.
I have always wanted to change lots of things. To my disgust though, it was not even possible to get rid of the accursed Bush tax cuts.
Whether I stand in your way or not depends a whole lot on what you are asking for and how you are asking. It seemed to me a number of years ago (maybe four or five) that I was probably gonna die with a whole bunch of money that I never got to spend, and so I needed to do more to help the next generation.
MY next generation though - meaning my nieces and nephews. But the more I have been doing that, the more it seems like my nieces and nephews are kicking ass without my help. They are already, in their early twenties, richer than I am, even though I have been working my whole life.
The fight simply is NOT yours. It is not all about you or people like you. I'd kinda like to enjoy my final twenty or so years on this planet and I kinda think I have earned some right in that regard. If you gore, or threaten to gore, my oxen, then expect some hard push back.