Reply #35: Catch-22 [View All]

[Firespirit]

Young people are easily swayed and rarely well read. If you disagree, perhaps you would like to put up your reading list for the year. You're much too busy with your sex lives, video games, college, barhopping, careers, etc. to actually read a biography or a non-fiction book.

Translation: The most liberal, pro-gay, pro-diversity, anti-war, pro-fair trade generation in history, and the only age demographic that voted majority for John Kerry, is a bunch of ignorant consumers. Prove me wrong by posting books you've read...

I don't really expect a list. It is much too easy to lie on anonymous laptops.

Translation: No, never mind, I've made up my mind before hearing what you have to say, and won't believe you anyway.

Last I checked, that was called "prejudice."

Where were all of you when elderly white women were protesting the war, some of them in their wheelchairs. We were begging young voters to help us. Where the hell were you then?

Possibly we realized that this isn't the 60s redux, and protests wouldn't make a bit of difference with the Bush gang. They're the laughingstocks of the nation now and they still do whatever they want, with 75% of America against them, and you think that young people's presence in protests would've mattered? It is to laugh. Have you considered that "elderly white women," retired from work, don't have QUITE as much to lose in this horrible economy as new graduates do, and young people judged that it was more (to use a favorite Hillary supporter term) pragmatic to acquire some independence and capital before amassing a movement?

I would like for you to consider your own inexperience and record of political activism? Is this your first time at the rodeo? Have you ever taken the advice of an elder, or do you consider yourself a pro-claimed political expert after your first primary.

I can't speak for the person you're replying to, but I'm in my mid-20s and I'm a former staffer for a national campaign. If this is degenerating into a "real-world political experience" penis contest, what've you got?