A Warning from 1987

[citizen blues]

In 1987 a few months after my younger one was born, we visited my Great Aunt Thelma in the mountains of Colorado. I was 23 at the time. My aunt was horrified that so many of my cousins in the same age range were supporting Reagan. She said with all earnestness that, "It's the young people who always bring about change."

Then this woman in her 80's made what was a chilling and prophetic statement. She lamented, "If the young people are conservative today, where will this country be in 30 years?" As worried as she was, a part of her seemed relieved that she wouldn't see it.

Now, I'm 60 and wondering the same although my timeline is far more compressed. I'm wondering where this country will be in 2 years. I'm wondering if we'll have another election in 4 or if it'll be so corrupted by then that it won't even matter.

Then there are the personal concerns like my retirement being gone, medical care being out of reach, and my non-binary kid being at risk every time they step out the front door.

I'm at a crossroads, an intersection of being numb, disgusted and angry. I hurt, and I'm tired. My Great Aunt Thelma looked to me for hope. She told me to carry the dream on to the next generation. I have as much as I could and it's not been enough. So what do I do, what do we do now?

I think that is something that each of us needs to ask ourselves.

[FirstLight]

1. I hear you...and feel the same in a lot of ways

I didn't think about pollitics when I was younger....but a lot of those conservatives did in the 80s.

I don't know when the next shoe will drop, or how.
I have a trans kid in NC - they say they dont think their gov will let it be too bad.
I'm hitting 55 in january and am disabled with autoimmune disease and rely heavily on my california medicaid to pay for my biologics just to "function"

The past couple weeks have been too much personally ... with all this, I am lost in an ocean of unknowns and illusion

thought I had some time to figure out the next "half" of my life.
now it feels like it's already over

[Mosby]

2. It's gen Xers who drove this.

Just saying.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. Yes it was

[Jack Valentino]

3. "Revolution used to be cool-- but now it's out of fashion"

[Gore1FL]

5. We've been through worse. Stlill, it will not be pleasant. Sadly, people will die .

“The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Towards Justice.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.