Reply #61: Are you a veteran? [View All]

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I can imagine that if you were a drafted soldier who didn't believe in the war at all and you were stuck over there in the jungle with people shooting at you, that would probably have been a worse time than now.

I have a different perspective, having been a hippie flower child war protester. I was angry back then, too, but I always had a feeling of hope that we could "change the world." Maybe it was just the idealism of youth, maybe it was the drugs, but it really seemed possible then that things could get better. These days I don't know what's going to happen. I keep trying to be hopeful, but everything is so corrupt and the people seem so powerless.

Part of me just wants to hunker down and lay low. The old "tune in, turn on, drop out." I can find joy in the little things around me and just shake my head over the rest.

I'll keep voting, of course, and most likely for Democrats, but do we really know if our votes count at all? I think our elections are all for show, something to placate the masses. The real power never changes.