There is talk of the 2020 elections being cancelled. It is a slow coup. I have passed the torch to the new generations & it is up to them to carry on the fight against despots. I will do my part but I can't fight with the verve I once had during the '60s. I am very concerned also.

Your age should not prevent you from being active in the resistance. I'm 77 and do as much as I can to express resistance.

I am just on 60. The younger generations are very complacent. We have protests here, many are grandparents.

I thought Joe Biden was an idiot. I thought Junior was the worst! Well, we elect even dumber people! After reading his Twitter posts, and "fake news" that he cries all the time, I STARTED to capatalize George W. Bush's name again! Serious. There are still some times when I wake up, and think it was a really bad dream.

Please volunteer to help register new voters. At 64, I will never give up.

Last April with two volunteers, we registered 74 high school students to vote, during four lunch hours at Wenatchee High School. We will do it again in September.

Since moving to Wenatchee, WA in 1984, I have been working to bring Wenatchee out of the 1950's. Being passive doesn't work. For example:

1. With a group of volunteers, cleaning up gullies that were illegal trash dumps. We still do this.

2. As a volunteer, co-founding the Women's Resource Center that provides shelter and services for battered and homeless women and children. The Women's Resource Center is now a United Way agency and houses 75 families.

3. As a volunteer, co-founding an alternative school to combat the high dropout rate. Now Westside High School, the alternative school has graduated over 1,000 students in the past 10 years.

4. Since 2006, I have been a volunteer college mentor at Wenatchee High School. I help minority, low income students write essays for college and scholarship applications.

5. Successfully getting into law a spray drift ban in the City of Wenatchee. This took 20 years. The day before the law went into effect, angry orchardists gathered upwind of Wenatchee and simultaneously emptied their spray tanks in a giant cloud of poisonous spray. Then they sold their orchards to developers and moved out of town, where they can spray to their heart's content.

One of my best success stories is Brenda, who won $269,745 in scholarships in 2016. A sophomore at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, Brenda plans to become a medical doctor and pathologist. She hopes to cure diseases.

Again, being passive doesn't work.

I’m with you, age and all.. I guess we had shit to recover from, too, like assassinations and a no-win undeclared war. But didn’t you feel we’d be far removed from such fears by now? That our nation would have grown up along with us..?

Watched Nixon do his dirty work, didn’t know if we’d survive Reagan, then two more terms of Bush Jr (agreed upon by historians as the nation’s worst president), … now this.. And with each of those Administrations, power & controls further consolidated within a smaller percentage of the nation.

The youth you mentioned ..blew it. I forget which Democrats ran against George McGovern back in the day, but what, he only won his own state? That would have been the similar outcome had ‘Bernie’ became the Dem’s candidate in 16. Youth thought they were doing something by sitting on their hands or voting some alternative. The did - they let a smoldering pile of Americans slide this POS into office..

It’s not like folks haven’t learned a lesson - no matter how wonderful a person like McGovern or Sanders are (and how much I agree with nearly all their desires), too large a proportion of our nation’s been brainwashed beyond reason and may forever be unwilling to sustain progress for more than 1 or 2 presidential terms. ..glad I didn’t end up in Vietnam … but if this Administration is what those guys fought to protect..

One of the best ways to fight is at the ballot box, and encouraging others to vote also.

The greedy oligarchy Dems keep shooting themselves in the foot..now they've changed the rules to bar Bernie from running on the Dem. ticket, so they can hold onto power.

you still can be and should. Granted it is harder but you have you social security at risk. I am going demonstrating on the 14th. fighting for the kids ICE is taking. not cool at all very fascist. I canvass. call demonstrate. anything. I'm retired you may not be yet. but we must try. Too much is a risk