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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]zeemike
(18,998 posts)After reading your post...but too late, so many have said them all for me.
All I can say is I am glad I am not young now, because although there are many things in your life it lacks one thing that is so much more important...freedom. Something I had a lot of in the 60s and 70s although you might not think things are all that different now but they are.
Protest have been nulified...they are no longer effective for several reasons. One is because they have been normalized and contained. And another is that they can and are controlled and manipulated by media and infiltration and co opted...just as they were back when only now it is far more pervasive.
The only hope I see is in a political revolution that brings people with good intentions to power...but that is a hard one because people who seek power seldom have good intentions.
But without that political change things will just continue.
Good luck young folks, we failed you and I hope you can learn from our mistakes and change things.