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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have decided---I'm 80 years old
I WILL NOT PUT UP
AND
I WILL NOT SHUT UP!
Who'"s with me (when you get done licking your wounds, even?)

Ocelot II
(124,349 posts)What have us old folks got to lose any more?
katmondoo
(6,505 posts)He is a disgusting old man. When I was young and worked in New York City, I met , during the course of business many guys just like Trump. They had no problem making a pass at me anytime they wanted. Trump was the same low life as these CO's. All thought they were the greatest and the most desireable of men. Meanwhile they were really the most abominable and disgusting.
Emile
(34,181 posts)rog
(811 posts)... and I'm with you!
SheltieLover
(66,847 posts)


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Silent Type
(9,046 posts)duhneece
(4,344 posts)I’ll grieve… then rise.
I’ll reach out to the people I know, I’ll work on staying connected…then organize.
BarbD
(1,322 posts)I will fight for the future of my grandchildren and great grandchildren.
RustyWheels
(190 posts)I'm with you.
KentuckyWoman
(6,951 posts)I've decided to cut a few people out of my life that would vote to burn the country to the ground rather than sit next to the likes of me (the enemy within). That gives me more time to fight for what is right. However, I am less optimistic for the end of my lifetime than I've ever been.
Evolve Dammit
(20,539 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,815 posts)Ligyron
(7,937 posts)70 and in good shape in fascist Florida.
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)HarryM
(356 posts)But I a right with you.
Never surrender.
Don’t mourn, organize
58Sunliner
(5,663 posts)bluescribbler
(2,323 posts)Hell, yes!
DemonGoddess
(5,126 posts)I believe we should organize,organize and organize! think we should get our younger people to run for local
State Legislatures. Maybe we could stop the gerrymandering . Rebubs can’t win without gerrymandering.
Let’s F ing go!
BonnieJW
(2,870 posts)Someone tell me how. Who do you fight when this country is soon going to be populated with goons who are waiting to put anyone, any reporter, any protester in prison without charge or trial? What will happen to your 20 year old son who marches against the new government? Who is going to write that letter to the editor or that oped piece? What paper will even print them? And do you think DU will be here in a year?
murielm99
(31,854 posts)Trump just enabled them to emerge from under their rocks. We stand up and fight them, no matter what. I am 76. My husbands 80. We will not stop fighting.
Paper Roses
(7,541 posts)I made 2 donations, not large ones to the Harris campaign. After receiving at least 100 or more requests for
$$, I started to get angry. THe meager well ran dry.
We all know that a presidential campaign is expensive but not if you have billionaires and Russia behind you,
There is not much I can do but if you have an idea for an old lady, let me know. I admire your perseverance. I have no more left to give.
Jilly_in_VA
(11,809 posts)but what can we gain by sitting in a corner and grieving? We need to get up and fight to the last breath!
ananda
(31,537 posts)I'm with you 100% !!!
But I need to hibernate and get creative
for a little while first.
Like a reboot.
I'm thinking crochet, relearning piano,
something like that.
bluestarone
(19,646 posts)Whatever it takes to save our country.
MMBeilis
(455 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(19,596 posts)Ping Tung
(2,189 posts)ancianita
(40,347 posts)Because he will definitely shut up all his opponents on penalty of prison, deportation, treason, and/or their lives. He personally won't do it, but his deputies will. There will be only a neutered DOJ and ACLU to defend you in a MAGA court.
It's not cowardice to make a strategic retreat, join forces with lawyered up institutions and groups who will collectively fight the good fight.
Jilly_in_VA
(11,809 posts)A few more years of life in a fascist AmeriKKKa? I'd rather be remembered like Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Sophie Scholl...or maybe the (fictitious?) Barbara Fritchie.
Brother Buzz
(38,315 posts)I can’t exactly do that now, and question if I have one more fight left in me.
But Damn it, this is a fight that needs to be fought. I’m in!
seta1950
(953 posts)Right there with you, 74 years old
Evolve Dammit
(20,539 posts)Jeebo
(2,413 posts)... I'm 74 years old and my health is not good and I have serious doubts about whether I'll still be above the ground in four years, or even in two years. Maybe I'll be around longer than I think, but what can I do? Besides giving money, writing letters to the editor, and voting. In a way, I'm glad I won't be around a whole lot longer. I don't think I'm going to like the world I'll be having to live in.
— Ron
Jilly_in_VA
(11,809 posts)Keep the faith!
lees1975
(6,433 posts)He will NEVER be my President.
summer_in_TX
(3,555 posts)Gonna persevere.
Skittles
(163,610 posts)I'm not a fucking COWARD, I WILL STAY AND FIGHT