You’ve witnessed, lived through, and somehow adapted to drastically-accelerating change in your country and the world at large in a relatively short period of time. This has given many of you a global mindset and desire to move away from the post-World War II capitalist, survivalist American Dream race of achievement toward something truer, better, but not necessarily bigger. You see how we politically came to be where we are in America, and may have seen enough of the world to realize it doesn’t have to be this way. You are in your prime, you carry economic clout, and you hold leadership positions. Now is your time to step up and be involved. Please do so.
If you are a baby-boomer, in your fifties or early sixties, the present state of our union should feel not only painfully familiar, but frightening. You are no stranger to revolution, to change, or to confronting the establishment. Even if you weren’t politically active during the Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Nixon years, you are definitely old enough to remember the lessons of those times and you have no excuse for not doing so. Many of you, the progeny of early twentieth-century immigrants to the US, through your courage managed to mold equal opportunity for and abolish injustice against minorities. Through your heritage and your diversity you’ve contributed to the multi-cultural, multi-racial mix that is America now. You are the most numerous and wealthy generation this nation has ever seen. Your ballast can sink or stabilize this ship. Please, if you have not done so already, get on board and help us steer it in the right direction.
And last but not least, if you are a veritable senior citizen, age seventy-five or older, well you’ve just about seen it all, haven’t you? You’ve seen how governments, a world, a universe, can give and take life. You have the long-term view of where we’ve been as a country, and you possess the wisdom of experience that can guide us toward where we’re going. You’ve been around enough to have lived the adage that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. You may be angry, you may be frightened, you may be resigned, you may be ill and infirm, or you may simply be old and tired. But YOU ARE STILL HERE. And we need you; all of you, to stay involved in preserving the America - not the government, not the politics—but the ideal, that so many of your generation fought and lost its lives for. Please don’t leave the ring yet, stay in and keep fighting the good fight. The rest of us promise to cheer you on.
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