60+ DUers....YOU ROCK!

[YOY]

Seeing a few pictures of the tea baggers and the amount of angry old white folks I saw just made me appreciate the older DUers here who prove with some folks, wisdom comes with age.

The baggers are proving the contrary.

This mid 30s DUer hopes he ages like you and not them.

[Warpy]

1. I think most of us old crocks at DU

were probably hellraisers in the 60s. I know I was.

The years have made me more radical, not less.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Hey Warpy, some of those young whippersnappers are not as dumb as we thought, eh?

They have taken up the good fight at a yong age, and apparently avoided the 80's "Me first"
thinking.
It is kinda nice to be appreciated in our dotage, say what?

[Cha]

9. I was a wild flowerchild..

now I'm just a flowerchild.

[gblady]

23. sounds like me....

my sons call me an ol' hippie...
still got my love beads on my altar to prove it!

I, on the other hand, think I'm just hip!
What do those young whippersnappers know, anyhow?

I dreamed of peace while marching on the freeway
protesting the Viet Nam war...
I dream of peace today, and I remain...
unflinching in my belief that it can happen in my lifetime.

[Cha]

31. See how we've come..

I wouldn't have it any other way.

I didn't protest Vietnam 'cause I
was in my own little world but I
thank you for doing so.

I did go to NYC to rally against
bush's War On Iraq and worked hard
to get President Obama elected so
our country could rid itself of the
gop Orwellian stranglehold.

I think we are living the Perfect
Storm for our Dreams of Peace. :hippie:

[eridani]

34. Same here

Planning to wear more purple and raise more hell, and rage, rage against the dying of the light before I have to check out.

[classof56]

2. Why thank you! Makes my recent 71st birthday seem a lot more tolerable!

Must admit, though, that until a few days ago I did not know the current meaning of "tea bagging". Now I can't stop laughing!

Long live and blessings, YOY!

[YOY]

4. Thank John Waters...

He's no spring chicken himself these days.

I just want to be an old man who's happy when he needs to be and pissed off when he actually should be.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. We do, indeed! But much more slowly and cautiously than in the past.

[Adelante]

6. You're very sweet

Thank you :)

[Cha]

8. Check out # 7..

:hi: Adelante~

[Cha]

7. That's very sweet of you..I'm

touched:P

[Adelante]

11. Haha

We old broads think alike :hug:

[Cha]

15. That's it..us old Liberal Broads.

:hug:

[Uncle Joe]

10. 60+ DUers will also age more gracefully, looking younger longer as they believe in

drinking their perfectly good anti-oxidant loaded tea, instead of trashing it due to self serving greed and or being brain washed by fascist leaning, hate filled propaganda outlets.

[Cha]

16. You got that

right! :hi:

[Uncle Joe]

17. Peace to you, Cha.

:hi:

[doctor jazz]

12. Heh, well I'm mostly quite liberal at 67 but I'm a strong supporter of the right to bear arms.

:D

[Cha]

19. Yes, and

bare arms:)

[Vinca]

13. Thanks. I feel like less of a geezer because of your post.

:fistbump:

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. thank you

whippersnapper:hi: :loveya:

[YOY]

21. You're the ones who actually INVITE people on their lawns and you know it!

:evilgrin:

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. guilty as charged!

people I dont know stand in my back yard and fish ( I live at a lake) and kids come over to catch frogs and stuff!

I am the neighborhood cat lady LOL

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

18. Me, too! I just want to retain half of the intelligence that they possess. n/t

[Mz Pip]

20. For one thing

We didn't have permits in Chicago in 1968 and people just didn't turn around, shrug their shoulders and go home. Now that was a protest. People risked getting their heads bashed and risked getting arrested because it was important to get the anti-Vietnam War message out. Did it have a good outcome? Not particularly. Nixon won. But people were passionate enough to take the risk of being arrested and being hit with billy clubs. That's what civil disobedience looks like.

These clowns don't even seem to be clear on what they are going on about. Obama is a fascist, but they can't explain why. Taxes are bad, but they didn't complain when the same tax structure was in place with Bush.

The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation. We have representation. We just had an election and Obama won by a landslide. These guys are pissed that their lame candidates didn't win. Fine. They are entitled to that. BUt to equate what they are doing today with the Boston Tea Party just shows an ignorance of history. No one said these fools were smart.

[old mark]

24. Wisdom comes with age? Hmmm.... Well, maybe later - I'm only

61 for a few more months.
Maybe my wisdom will come with my first social security check.



Then again, maybe not...., but what the hell.

Thanks, I guess.
(Shit, I didn't realise there were so many OLD PEOPLE here!)

mark:hippie:

[gblady]

25. Reminder.....

Age is a state of mind....

My years say 60...
My mirror says 45ish...
My heart says mid 20's most of the time.

[young_at_heart]

26. I couldn't agree more

Going on 70---but I feel like (maybe) 40!!

[Froward69]

27. Froward smiles a toothless grin...

:toast:

[Bigmack]

28. Of course we "rock"...

ya goldern whippersnapper. We can still git it up on occasion, too!

I was fightin' Fascists while you were still shittin' into paper.

I got sevral brain cells left, too.

Seriously, being old makes things a lot easier. Being arrested at a peace protest doesn't mean shit! No employer!

[laylah]

29. ...

thank you :hug: Actually we do :yourock:

[county worker]

30. Those tea baggers were mad back in the 60's also.

Most of them love authority and the 60's were about being anti authority. They've been mad all these years and it has to have some negative effect on them. I mean many of them are down right ugly people!

[FloridaJudy]

32. Why, in my day

We had to hike five miles to our protest marches through driving blizzards. Uphill. Both ways.

You kids don't appreciate how good you've got it, what with the Internet and all instead of blurry mimeographs. Now, go out there and create a just society before I whack you with my cane!

[eridani]

35. And Lettraset! And slide rules!

"Didja chip that out of flint?"
"Where do you plug it in?"

[Libertyfirst]

33. In my 70's and my children and grandchildren help me carry on the good fight.