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@ButIJustWanna This is a longer conversation, but one you have a right to. So, without a DM, I'll need to do this directly here, but circumspect. The generation you have an issue with is called the Greatest Generation, they are the rich, old, white males who still own and run
everything, the end of that generation was 1945. Mine, boomers began with 1946, I'm 9/49 so still at the earlier, with the largest numbers in the 50's. I did not grow up rich. My parents were children of Swedish immigrants, farmers. My dad never made more than 3,000 in a year in
his life, he died in 1984 when I was 34. We were as poor as it is possible to be in the 50's and 60's. I went to a two room country school, four grades per room, five in my class. Our farm bordered my maternal grandparents, they had a tv, running water, central heat (wood), our
place had no indoor plumbing, no insulation, no tv, no phone until I was 14. We spent winters sitting around one wood furnace, reading. I was the youngest in my class always, you had to be 6 by 9/1 to start, but they let me start early as I was 6 on 9/7 in 1956.
I had the highest ACT score in my high school but no money, knew a draft was coming so I enlisted in March 1968 at 18. To choose my job, and get the GI Bill. I was the first in my family on either side to go to college. After college I spent 45 years in public service in downtown
Minneapolis. I was a single parent from 1979 on, two boys, both of whom have preceded me. I had no money, what I did I spent on them, I shopped with a calculator to feed them. My politics were formed by MN being the most liberal state in the union, MA would argue, but we had
Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Walter Mondale. Humphrey was the youngest mayor Minneapolis ever had, he formed the modern DFL coalition. He said: "...It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children;
those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped", which is sometimes described as the "liberals' mantra". It's also my mantra. I saw in my years in public service all of what you are upset
about, bigotry, systemic racism, generational poverty. I worked with impoverished groups of color. I saw the problems with the Minneapolis police department from 1976 on - when I began working for Hennepin County, Minneapolis' county. I don't know why those things didn't get
changed, I think it was partly the generation before us, extremely racist, still controlling everything, as they do now, but they are dying off. The percentage of white voters in every election since 1994 has dropped 1% to 2%, it's barely half of registered voters now. By 2043,
whites will be less than half the population. It takes a precipitating event to effect a huge societal change. The Civil war, the civil rights movement of Dr. King. The murder of George Floyd was such an event. But what gives me the most hope for real change is the last two
generations. I didn't meet a person of color until I was in the army. My sons had diverse classrooms and both had best friends who were Black. My grandchildren (my youngest died at 21 in 1997, my eldest at 36 in 2010) are 20 and 18, both have college roommates of color, their
best friends are of color. Those two generations are going to change the world, Gen Z is as liberal as I am, most of it, and they are coming of age for voting since 2018. That's what will change America the most as they move into power. As young women move into power and
leadership roles. There's so much more coming, but that's what gives me hope, though I'll not live to see it all. I did what I could, there weren't enough like me to effect real change and there was no precipitating event for us beyond the Vietnam War, in which I served, I left
there two months past 21. I'll be 71 in a couple weeks. I am sorry for the state the world, the nation, is in, if I could change it, I would. But I know the generations coming into their own now can, and will. I see it beginning now. I hope things get better for all of you, I
believe they will. I believe in you. Sorry this got so long, but I didn't say a tenth of what I could. Still, my heart is with you all. And whatever support I have, you have. The liberal mantra is the way of the future. You are it's life and it's hope for a better tomorrow.
