Reply #26: Even at DU [View All]

[MuseRider]

there are those of us who saw it, were disgusted by it but have to admit that during those years were complacent about it. I know I always spoke out about it but that is all I did. I have to own that. My kids were born during Reagan, I was busy....you know all those excuses. I saw this coming and thought that maybe the 8 years of Clinton would show people how it could be. I saw the VRWC against Clinton but what did I do...nothing. That is how we let it happen. I am embarrassed by that, saddened by it but that is the truth. I was fat, happy, doing well, taking care of a dying family while raising my own and I left it for others to do. That is how it happens. I hate that I did not do more so now I do everything I can but I do fear it is too late.

I think if there is anything to be salvaged it is to take those Echo kids and show them what it was like (they did not really get that in school) and how it became what it is now. You can't even talk the girls these days into openly stating they are feminist. You can't convince them that what it was like to be 16, pregnant with nothing but a dirty old man quack in a dirty old hotel room is reason enough. They will soon find out because of the complacency of some of us. :cry:

THIS should be the lesson for the generations to come. This is what happens if you let yourself be lazy about your government. I hope they learn this well and pass it on but it is history and that is boooooring.