FischFry and the crew

Before there was this kerfuffle the last 24 hours about who is or is not qualified to be President and who said what when, there were the comments by Hillary Clinton where she said she understood the support Sanders has with young people — that she was excited to be protesting when she was in her 20s.

So, yesterday — a bunch of us excited “young” people were at the largest Metro station in Maryland, passing out flyers to voters as we’ve been doing for almost a month now across the Maryland/DC suburbs. A lot of us “youngsters” have been registering new voters, too — at the Metros and at schools across the state. If only all these more experienced Clinton supporters were doing the same. We need ot lock up the new generation of Maryland voters — and to defeat the increasingly popular Republican governor when he seeks re-election in 2 years.

Anyway — this diary comes out of reply to a comment I posted in another diary almost 2 days ago. The reply was that my comment ought to be a diary, so here it is:

I’m 51. I was young once, too. I’m younger than Clinton, but I’ve got the knees of someone in their 70s and the back of someone in their 80s. Some of the older people in our local Maryland Sanders group tried to tell me the other night that I’m still young. I don’t feel that way — but I am a lot younger than they are.

So, it ain’t just young people. The problem isn’t that she’s dismissing Sanders supporters for their youth and naiveté. It’s that this isn’t even an honest description of Sanders voters. Yes, we had many volunteers that were out there over the last couple of weeks registering college students. But, the volunteers are mostly in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. And, some of our more active volunteers are even older than that.

Maybe, we’re recapturing some lost part of our youth, when we were idealistic and wanted to change a deeply flawed system. If that’s the case, we’re not the ones with the naiveté. It’s those in the power elite that don’t understand the depth and breadth of the disenchantment. It’s not just the young who haven’t seen enough of the world to really understand how it works. It’s also a lot of adults who have seen how the world works and have an abiding conviction that all that must change.

Read the news about how the corruption of the elites has permeated every facet of our world. Read about the FIFA soccer bribery scandals. Read about the Panama Papers — Despots plundering their countries and laundering their ill-gotten wealth, evading international sanctions. World leaders and the insanely rich evading taxes in their home country, even as the elites insist that pooor and the vanishing middle classes bear the brunt of austerity policies made “necesssary” because of the elites criminal behaviors.

Read the reports on the climate. Our very survival depends on overthrowing the system. If we can’t do that, we have no hope of making the needed changes in time to make any appreciable difference. We need a revolution. It starts here.

Another phtoto from the Metro:

And a couple from our Baltimore rally last month:

#BernieMadeMeYoung #BernieMadeMeYoungAgain #BernieMadeUsYoung