Reply #23: I'm close to that vintage [View All]

and while I thought Nixon was hideous and needed to go, I wasn't afraid he'd start throwing nukes.

That didn't happen until Reagan got in, and it's been a horrible ride in this country since that happened unless one inherited great wealth.

This is the worst of all. I keep repeating that old bromide about how it's darkest before dawn, but it just keeps getting darker and dawn's a long way off.

At 22, you'll still be young enough to take advantage of the day when dawn finally arrives. Those of us who began our adult lives during Nixon are battered and beaten down, our whole lives scarred by one conservative after another attacking our civil rights, our ability to make a living, our right to help when we get sick. We can't even afford to die.

What is delaying the dawn is the feeling of "It hasn't happened to me yet, so everything's fine with the rest of the world." It is going to have to get a whole lot darker out there before we have the energy to bring the dawn.