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Not just for millennials anymore?!A graying generation founded on peace and love finds its champion: Bernie Sanders
By Stephanie McCrummen May 30 at 2:30 PM
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. It is a glorious day in Northern California, and Lewis Elbinger, a 68-year-old Bernie Sanders supporter, is feeling great or, as he puts it, high vibe. In the five decades since he first painted a white peace sign on his forehead, protested the Vietnam War and hitchhiked to India to become a monk, in fact, he has never felt more optimistic about the country than at this very moment.
A consciousness is rising, he says.
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I have personally seen the cost of poverty, of these children being disenfranchised from the economic system, begins a young mental-health worker named Randall.
Im Native American, and Bernies the only one whos ever cared about us, says a young man named Erik.
Bernies our only hope you guys, says a mother of four named Karissa, her voice rising as she explains that she is overwhelmed with bills and is about to lose her house and that she is shouting because she is terrified. I will stand with him for hours! I will stand with him for days! I will stand with him until my feet are bleeding, my knees are buckling! I will stand with him until Im exhausted and fall down, and then Ill grab one of you guys to stand me up to stand with him some more!
A 67-year old woman recalls hearing Martin Luther King speak at the March on Washington in 1963. A man in his 70s recalls attending the tumultuous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. A Legal Aid lawyer recalls marching against the Vietnam War.
Many of you remember those times, he says.
In the audience, Elbinger is nodding, because of course he does. He remembers everything about those times, and that is the reason why he is here, walking up to the stage, a white-haired, 68-year-old Jewish man still clinging to all the ideas that first inspired him.
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Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)There are definitely some hippie, love the mountain types there but it is quite a Republican stronghold (Romney took 56% in Siskiyou county in 2012). It will be interesting to see how Bernie does there in the primary as I think the Dems in that area will strongly lean toward him, but that will be a heavy Trump area come November.
democrank
(11,096 posts)Where I am, so many of the "graying generation" have the same principles now as they had back in the day. Every single time I marched against the war in Iraq or for issues relating to social and economic justice, fellow oldsters comprised close to 50% of the protestors. I`m thrilled to know someone like Bernie is out there.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)that is the narrative I've read and heard time and again.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)That was always just another of the HRC team lies.
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)SamKnause
(13,108 posts)I will be 63 on the 26th of June.
I am female.
I support Bernie and his policies.
He envisions the America I envision.
Feel The Bern
Peace and Love
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)(I mean the movie, of course. If everyone who SAYS they were at Woodstock was ACTUALLY at Woodstock, there would have been roughly 25 million people there!)
Right arm. Outta state. Power to the purple. Don't eat the brown acid.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)hillary has dominated the over 50 voting group
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)got the impression there was an agenda to show these Bernie supporters in a ridiculous light -- aren't they kinda quirky and cute -- to make more conservative, or less new-agey, people re-think their affiliation with Bernie & his supporters.
I'm a passionate Bernie supporter, but I have a distinct allergy to most things spiritually or otherwise "trippy" despite being myself accused of New-Agey-ness). The article seems unnecessarily descriptive of the hippietrippie stuff, which I don't relate to nor do many other old hippies who grew up and learned to think for themselves, rather than follow a new set of rites rituals or people who tell you how to think and what sort of candles you ought to light.
This article paints a goofy picture of such a person, my opinion, ergo not beneficial to Bernie's campaign but aaaaaaaaaah ... probably doesn't MATTER ffs .. need coffee I think..... <--- thas me trying to think for myself at 5am pls forgive me if I totally misread and misinterpreted the writer.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)That's another thing non-millennials do-overthink!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)A rarity in presidential campaigns - at least this forcefully and consistently.
Bernie is the only one who has been speaking out for all of us, young, old and in between. we are the majority too I might add. Trouble is there is so much bullshit that some get overwhelmed by it all.
I like good people and Bernie Sanders in one hell of a good person and will make us a great President. Jane will make us proud as our first Lady too. Way more so than bill will as first whatthefuckever they wind up calling his stinking ass.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I am one of the rare people around here who have positive feelings about both Bernie and Hillary. I think Bernie's movement has been great for the party and the country in general, in that it has shined a light on a number of issues that do not get discussed as much as they should. And it has demonstrated that many many people feel strongly about those issues.
That being said, I would be quite happy to see Hillary and Bill in the White House again if HRC ends up getting the nomination.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Maybe they can levitate the Pentagon again, too.