standing up to the man 3

 Youth are idealistic.  They have yet to make those morally compromising decisions that life calls for, their souls are yet to be besmirched, and they don't have much so they don't have much to lose and it feels so right to be on the straight and narrow and rising road.  

And it is as plain as the noses on their faces that there is plenty wrong with this world.  Plenty wrong with this world run by adults who have all the money and all the guns and seem just fine with this.  Are they blind?  Are they corrupt?  Well either way, something has to be done about it, the Youth will have to lead the world,  Wasn't there something in the credo of the children's crusade where the pure of heart have a power that evil cannot defeat?

And then there was the war, and wars are terrible things, all that blood and treasure disappear into the chasm.  Men are killed by their fellow men, guys who would have been swell pals if they had been born in the same country are killing each other.  And then, of course, they wanted us to do the fighting,

But what of the Trumpists then?  I am at a distinct disadvantage here because I don't know any Trumpists.  I have my improv group, and my watercolorists, and the gang at the Ten Cat, and my neighbors here in the condo, and not a Trumpist among them,  At any given moment one of us will make a crack about Trump and everybody will laugh.  Oh there is likely one or two who, like my friends living in red states, know it is easier to say nothing and get along, but I am not going to be able to talk to them,

And I am not talking about Trumpists so much as I am talking about the horde of January Sixth.  The one thing I think they had in common with the protesters of the sixties is that they thought they were doing the right thing.

But what first sticks out about them right away is how old they are.  Not many idealistic youth in that crowd, and the second thing is how many couples there were among them, so many wives and seemingly just as fervent as their hubbies.  And what a mish mash, all those Q anon patches and flags, all those militant military groups like the proud boys, and a lot of them just thrill-seeking tourists, "Oh look Martha, we can walk right into Nancy Pelosi's office, let's get a selfie of ourselves behind her desk for the grands, they will get such a kick out of that.

Well I don't know.  This is one of those things that I thought as I wrote about it things would become clear but they have not, so I don't know what to say.

I think Putin is more of a uniter than Trump the divider is that he is ruling over the Russkies who are a very different people than the Americans.