Reply #4: I hear you. I have lost my fight. I just want to crawl to a modest retirement.

[Faygo Kid]

My significant other turns 60 this week, and I'm right on her heels. She lost her job 18 months ago after a lifetime of achievement and through no fault of her own, and of course, don't even ask if someone her age can find a job. She has built a little business through hard work where she makes one-fifth what she made before with no benefits. Luckily, I'm employed and have her now on my benefits. We're lucky. But I have no illusions.

I know where I want to be. I fought like hell for civil rights, against the war, and for candidates I believed in through the years. Now we are governed by an elite few, and while one party is totally mad, most Dems are also unwilling to stand for us. I hope for good health and a few years without having to work in the place that I desperately long to return to. That's about it. The fight is gone.