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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]LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)If you remember back in the Occupy era, seems so long ago. The kids were out there and right beside them you would find the old retired people. I remember the picture of the old lady with the walker who was arrested. It seems that the only people who can make a change are those who do not have to hold down a job because they are young or retired.
I was hoping that a young person would come along and fire up everyone, like a Kennedy did, but instead we have a young man in an old body. I feel that way myself. I still like I did when I got beat up in Selma. I still feel the same when I went to the "Moratorium protests" in NYC. Mighty cold that winter, the film froze in my camera. I still feel the same when I went to the first Earth day in NYC. The body though is that of a 67 year old. Can't run as fast any more from tear gas.
Most of us old farts figured that the young did not care about anything any more. We got a lot of hope during the Occupy movement. It is time to bring it back.