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bucolic_frolic

(43,133 posts)
4. Thanks for the ideas
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 11:07 AM
Jan 2022

As an old person, I trust old people. But understand ... i the 1700s, being 25 or 30 or 35 involved a lot of thought if you were in public life. You read books, you were probably religious. So you brought something upstairs. I suggest humbly that today's 35 year old do not measure up. Wisdom comes with age. I cannot convince myself that I can convince you. But you might feel it when you're 60. Personally I don't think there should be judges at 30 or 35 years old. No SCOTUS at even 50. People need the evidence, to feel and live the decades to understand the way life rebounds, events echo, ideologies go underground and return, the balance of the judgment of time. That's just my take of course.

For some reason bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #1
I'm really not leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #3
Thanks for the ideas bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #4
I get what you are saying leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #5
Four Turnings Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #7
Thank you! leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #8
Yes leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #9
Nomadic Cynics... Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #11
Your dads trajectory leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #12
Your family story projects True Blue American Jan 2022 #18
Old Gen X meme, but fav leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #13
THey're funny because there's some truth.... Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #14
Happy leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #16
Happy leighbythesea2 Jan 2022 #17
Too many just don't vote especially in non-presidential years. They need to VOTE. Period. LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #19
What are "token candidates"? betsuni Jan 2022 #20
+1000. True, fright is growing and people are worried. But! Hortensis Jan 2022 #2
Thx ...great post! PortTack Jan 2022 #6
Great Words but if the QOP Cheats and we let them then Democracy is gone with no recourse Tommymac Jan 2022 #10
Totally agree with you kansasobama Jan 2022 #15
Authoritarian followers do as they are told Bettie Jan 2022 #22
You are right. The one thing we lack Bettie Jan 2022 #21
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