DNC chairman aims for diversity with delegate nominations

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142. Yes, that was my generation too. I was in Nevada in high

school, everyone knew all the guys' draft numbers and who would go and who probably would not, and restlessness was in the air. Berkeley only a morning's drive but, for kids, a frustrating world away.

I married and had children young, though, so we weren't all that seduced by rampant consumerism. Too cashed out the first decade, older and wiser after. Radical acquaintances who once railed tiresomely about violent revolution and looking forward to "killing a senator" probably either self destructed or settled down. For us it was the need to provide a home for and raise our children that slotted us into comfortable conformity and caused us to lose touch with good friends who truly did want to head off grid. Miss one couple in particular to this day. Googling turns up no trace.

But I'm not at all sure that for typical counterculture liberals like us more realistic versions of ideals of that era aren't also still alive inside, even if those once enthralled have a much better idea of what a life of subsistence farming would be. Certainly the music still lives, and we keep hearing about retirees who finally take that opportunity to live the lives and, for some special people, do the meaningful work they once dreamed of.

As for those farther left.... I've often thought that today's "revolutionaries" revolutionarily demanding repeal and replace of the ACA with single-payer are a pretty pathetic shadow of those we knew in the 60s and 70s. For those who survived those days, maybe they're searching flea markets for collectible records these days. And, now that I think about it, for sure railing about Democrats. Hard to imagine that much change, even if hair is white now.