This evening I was clicking the remote to get to the Weather Channel and happened to come across a tribute to Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary. I watched it long enough to see John Kerry, George McGovern, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bill Moyers praise her commitment to progressive causes. Then I watched Peter and Paul, looking very old, sing “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”
It occurred to me how pleased I am to have been on the right side of many of major issues of the last half century; Pro Civil Rights. Anti-Vietnam War. Pro-voting rights. Pro-choice. Pro gay rights. Pro-union. Pro health care for all Americans. Anti Iraq war. Environmentalist. Johnson, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Hart, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and Obama supporter.
We didn’t win all of those, but if I die tonight, I’ll have very little to regret–at least politically.
I agree, same thoughts
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