By Mark Greico, Somerset.
I am well into my 50’s, a time when you feel you are more than ripe enough to give advice on life to younger people. Most of it is the helpful type, like “Go home and take a nap, you’ll feel better,” or “It wouldn’t kill you to eat some fresh fruit!” But the last two years have been no laughing matter in this nation. Rather, they have been deadly serious, and many in my generation struggle to tell young people how to make sense of the madness we have all experienced as Americans. Here’s what I would offer:
I would tell young people this insanity is not who we really are as Americans. This slow drift towards fascism, the use of violence as a means of political expediency, the indifference to the sexual assault of women, the injection of lies, hate, and fear into the political dialogue, and the assertion that the free press is the enemy of the people, are not at all normal. We are usually better than this. We have been a light unto the world in the past, but now some in power have cast a shroud of darkness over the nation. That shroud, held fast by hands afraid of change and the loss of privilege, must be cast off for America to once again be a beacon of freedom for the world.
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