Hullabaloo boots! Hullabaloo boots!
We got out of college, got good jobs, raised families. We taught our children to do the same.
We also forgot that while we were protesting, some of our peers hated us (Karl Rove etal). Those peers then went on to protest in their own way, to
this day continuing to portray themselves as the "victim" in any culture war. With corporations on their side, they steamrolled over the nation.
On the upside, Cesar Chavez, for example, while helping the farmworker, helped us to become aware of pesticides. We tried to live organically, and
finally the corporations are coming around. Let us push them further to find gold in green.
Cindy Sheehan continued the protest tradition, rallying others. Many protests today just don't make the news as they once did.
We are the bridge from our parents' generation to our children's. Certainly our children are more racial/gender/religious tolerant, more educated,
and more inquisitive than our parents. The world we leave is the world in which they must fight and slay their own dragons.
They must figure out their own future, doing so without fear or hate, with rational thought, not irrational outbursts. There are good things happening
on this planet, just maybe finally on a smaller scale, and more people becoming aware of this.
Maybe my children's rallying cry should be, "Don't let the bastards wear you down!" I'm sure a French translation would render it nicer sounding.
