Young People, it’s Your Turn

Dear young people of USA, it’s your turn to make the nation better.  Those of us activists made in the 1960s and 1970s expected to have our turn at governance.  We protested the Vietnam War, we protested racism, we created Earth Day, we thought we would roll into Congress and make the nation into a model of peace and justice for the world.  But, Reagan brought avarice and oligarchy in instead, and it has gone downhill ever since.  The nation we have now is a corrupt, opportunistic, filled with senseless egocentrism and shallow entertainment.  Now we age off and the direction of the USA continues to be dominated by people without empathy or foresight.  We leave the future in your hands. You will have the next 60 years to make your best impression.  After that, the future will no longer be yours, just as this time is no longer ours.