Reply #6: Some of us have stayed as political as we were then, maybe in less

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obvious ways.

That is, we haven't given up. I'm a professor and am always discussing politics or porgressive ways of thought. I've not been to another demonstration, but had only been to one before, In 1969 I went to live in the woods of Washington with the FBI on my tail for draft evasion. I'm primarily a writer-teacher, but made national news with the graduate student (then) Jack Gillis during the Clinton impeachment days by investigating the "Talking Points Memo" (which Clinton presumptively gave to Monica to suborn the perjury of Linda Tripp), showing that there were three different texts all said to be the actual, original text (NYT & WP and one other had one version whereas ABC and another outlet had a second . . . all with the same 7 variants), and SHOWING that neither Clinton nor any of his men created the document, though it was that document that Starrr took to DoJ to extend his authority into "The Lewinsky Affair." Eight months. But we were on Burden of Proof on CNN and had great articles on our work by Gene Lyons, Joel Conason and Tom Oliphant, besides appearing on dozens of talk shows like on Pacifica.

Have also maintained long bibliographical posts on DU on Harkengate, Halliburton, etc. with hotlinks. (A political research tool for liberals).

That is, I was never that political, more of a poet hippy that a political hippie, but I've always been willing to lay it on the line, so to speak.

Don't write us off. Just as there are tens of thousands of vibrant young progressives and liberals just as there are many of us in our 50s and 60s (I'm 60) who are still very active. (My writing is even very political in an essential way–trying to show the incredibly rich multi-valence of existence and always arguing against those who would make life meagre, which I associate with a miserly and hierarchal Republican (often racist) mentality. But even the idea of a dialectic (as the chief means of thought) is terribly narrow. These generations that we are discussing are incredibly various and complex, and goodness often abounds, despite the apparent evidence (which is terribly filtered by the media).