I have repeatedly gotten the attention of members of the under 40 set by telling them: Someday you're going to suffer, be old, die and, so, I need to know what you have done about that reality, because all I see is a teenager plus ten, twenty, thirty, definitely not a man or a woman who is cognisant of our collective vulnerability and the need to act compassionately in real terms every day of our lives to help each of us, all of us, throughout the entirety of the human journey?
If the statement has a political bent, I might add: Joe Biden is the epitome of that practical compassion that I am referring to, while all that Trump and his acolytes have done is play you for a born every minute PT Barnum sucker for their slick grift and con game.
I might and have concluded with: Every moment of your life is made better by the hard work of sensible and, yes, even old people, by the millions, who have busted their asses for the common good, because, you know, what is good for all of us is good for you too and what is good for grifter gangsters is good for no one, not even themselves.
We have gotta get through about Joe Biden’s highly successful, pragmatic, ass-busting decency, and we have gotta burn into hearts and minds that the seduction many are falling prey to is a death dance that will end in the destruction of the greatest social experiment known to our species, this constitutional democracy of the United States of America through which we all can have the capacity to prosper within.