@WmShakesp3are I am old and I dislike some old people...the bitter and angry ones who try to spread their negativity around. The ones who refuse to try to look at the world as it changes and refuse to make changes along with it.
I'm older than dirt, have been making changes since, oh, about when JFK was elected and I realized my parents knee-jerk objections to him were crap. I welcomed the CR movement; I thought Elvis's "In the Ghetto" was a message to all to fix that cycle, wrote n award winning essay on it. But now...
Now i AM angry and bitter. Not because the world changed, but because it really has not. I honestly imagined it was the Age of Aquarius once. 😥 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAn-AWXtHv0
@dbc3@Snowshadow@WmShakesp3are
A lot of our generation believed we were entering into an era of peace and love. How naive it sounds now.To a degree I feel I share some blame for the world not changing, feeling I could have done more. Although active politically, was distracted by family/career. I lived most of my adult life in blue states. It made me a bit complacent. During Obama years I felt great progress was being made. A storm was brewing, I had no idea it could lead to today's crisis.
@Barbramon1 I think many were lulled into thinking we were making progress. I know I was shocked (as many around the world) when trump was elected and afterwards....@dbc3@WmShakesp3are
@WmShakesp3are
A lot of my union coworkers voted for that evil douchebag, it was appalling. First thing he did was to screw over the air traffic controllers union. Since he was elected, income inequality stopped getting narrower and began its current trajectory with poverty increasing and the hollowing out of the middle class. He was a horrible criminal, the only thing that kept him from being impeached was Alzheimer’s. I’m glad he died, he was more crooked than Nixon @Snowshadow@thepoliticalcat@Barbramon1@dbc3
@CivilityFan yup. Awful man. Let's not forget the War on Drugs was simply a smokescreen for a war on POC. While he kept people down in the slums in poverty, forcing them to do anything to survive, he picked them off using the police, meanwhile the rich kids buying the coke were let off with no charges. @WmShakesp3are@thepoliticalcat@Barbramon1@dbc3
@Snowshadow
I have always maintained that he was really the Devil incarnate. Neither Carter nor Mondale could fathom how disposable and dangerous he was, or how underhanded his campaign could be. Americans have been led to believe he was a great communicator, but really he was the first fascist fox in the Democratic henhouse, making deals with Iranian terrorists to delay the return of our kidnapped diplomats & giving weapons to right wing dictators in Central America
I’m reading about the making of Blues Brothers right now. While they were locking up POC for pot, Belushi and his buddies were doing boatloads of you name it.
@Snowshadow
Was working long hours during a few crisis weeks near the end of my career, a few 12 & 14 hour days when renewing and replacing a whole labor & delivery unit’s fetal monitoring when the nurses decided the newer models just weren’t cutting it, and coffee was my drug of choice. But those kinds of work related calamities were few and far between, mostly just normal 40 hour work weeks and only four or five cups of coffee a day @thepoliticalcat@WmShakesp3are@zakalwe@dbc3@Barbramon1
@CivilityFan I ran on coffee for years...but it wears you out eventually. 14+ hour days/ 6 days a week are no fun and not good for your health. I would never advise anyone to work more than 8 hours a day max. 5 days/week. It isn't worth it...but at the time I had no choice. Dependants. Mouths to feed and clothes to buy.... @thepoliticalcat@WmShakesp3are@zakalwe@dbc3@Barbramon1
@thepoliticalcat@Snowshadow@Barbramon1@dbc3@WmShakesp3are It's an Electoral College thing. Hillary got more votes, but the red states votes count for more. That and voter suppression and getting rid of the VRA. And don't think red states don't know what they're doing with their anti-civil rights laws. They're deliberately driving out blue voters so they can have a lock on the Electoral College and the presidency.
@Snowshadow@dbc3@WmShakesp3are I blame myself for falling into that trap. As an activist I was exhausted from dealing with the evil and outrages of Bush/Cheney years. When Obama won felt I could at last relax and recuperate a bit. Then I saw the Tea Party revolt and the rise of lunatics like Sara Palin. The signs were all there. I was probably guilty of some magical thinking at the time, perhaps hoping that extreme right wing would burn itself out, not grow stronger.
@Snowshadow@dbc3@WmShakesp3are
The lesson here, as far as I am concerned, is to pay attention no matter how rosy things appear. And take action when action is needed.
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