YES...I’M IN THAT AGE GROUP...TURNED 70 THIS YEAR..BUT I RETIRED 12 YEARS AGO...I KNEW MY LIMIT WAS APPROACHING.
Me too, haircutter.
We should have fought our peers when we were younger. We were too busy working, raising our families, and shaking our heads at those idiots in our generation.
When we castigate them, we need to take a good look at our failure to confront them back then. I never thought they would insidiously worm their way into all our institutions, but they did, right down to the Girl Scouts.
Our failure is that we didn’t fight them back then. I am afraid it is now too late, for they have ruined everything they have touched, and have taken our country down without a shot being fired. All they needed was their loud mouths and rhetoric!
Look back to the 60s, and see how many of “them” have successfully infiltrated into all aspects of our lives. Never thought much about the McCarthy period, was very young at the time, but now am beginning to think he was right.
We deserve the scorn of our children and grandchildren. We were asleep, and never thought they would succeed. Now all we can do is grieve the loss of our country, because we took it for granted.