Reply #109: in my case, my parent is the age of your grandparents,

[nannah]

not too long ago, i blurted into the phone something very similar to your statement,

"You and your war-mongering generation of lunatics are destroying any chance of my generation, and my children's generation, having any financial freedom. Your mentality will drive this country into another draft. You claim that I'm naive and undereducated, yet you are the one who won't research. You are to blame for the complete mess this country is in. I can forgive anyone for voting for the wrong guy once, but twice? No. Not when my future, and my children's future, hangs in the balance."

I was helping my kids get their coats on when I heard, from my mother: "I won't be on this earth much longer anyway - so it's not my problem"..."

even the remark about leaving the earth so not caring is what i hear all the time from my "ronnie reagan republican" father.

i am the same age as your father. i have been protesting since the 60's. i found your description of your upbringing to be fascinating. do you think the tangibility of music and piano playing gave you the perceptual framework to debunk the prevailing values of the restrictive environment in which you were raised?