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We senior voters literally risked our lives to vote for Joe Biden yesterday.

This is simply not true, unless you regard Twitter as the totality of the internet, which seems a common error among young people and cable TV pundits. But most Americans eschew the boorish Twitter for the cerebral civility of Facebook. Your square grandparents understood this all along. Joe Biden’s victory came as

It’s true that we boomers put an end to the Bernie Revolution last night, and for that we will not apologize, but it still breaks our hearts to watch you young folks grieve so. We will allow you a respectful mourning period, but understand that all Americans of goodwill must band together behind Joe Biden to defeat

My heart goes out to all you young people who invested your sweat and tears in the dream of the Bernie Revolution, but you must know your Revolution ended last night. Today begins the grieving process, all five stages of it.

I know how painful it is, because I lived it.

In the early 1970s, ensconced in our armed

Youthful revolutionaries tend to cloister themselves into intellectual islands. Insularity is a poison of the mind. You can talk yourself into believing anything when you’re surrounded by other true believers.

I warned you Kinja and Twitter denizens to look to Facebook if you wanted to take the pulsebeat of America, but you scoffed. Back in the 1960s we college-educated boomers allowed our remoteness from working Americans to cause us to overestimate their appetite for revolution. We resolved never to repeat that mistake.

Such a predictable sad ending.

You socialists will hate to admit this, but last night was a referendum on President Obama, and President Obama won.

A feminist website like Jezebel couldn’t even exist if we boomers hadn’t created women’s lib. So when boomers come to this site to ramble, show us some respect, because we earned the privilege.

No. Joe exceeded your expectations.

Pete and Chasten proved the wisdom of working within the system.

We seniors are excited about Pete’s future as a cabinet secretary in the Biden administration. It will make fine grooming for the day eight years from now when Joe passes the baton to Pete, America’s first gay President.

Watch the Joni Mitchell video above. It explains everything far better than I can. If you still can’t forgive Pete after hearing that song, I can’t help you.

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You don’t understand. You’re too young. Woodstock transcends time and space. It is anywhere like-minded people are gathered to act in the spirit of Woodstock. As we drove home in our Volkswagen buses, we had an inchoate notion of having participated in an event of cosmic significance, but it wasn’t until Joni Mitchell

I heard perfect strangers speak those words to me on thousands of occasions in the Haight and Berkeley in the 1960s. Those were the shimmering days when possibilities were limited only by our imaginations, and a stranger was just a friend you hadn’t met before. Pete has been called a liar for claiming partnerships

The ERA continues to fill its intended role of fool’s gold for the Left.

My Facebook group is filled with ex-revolutionaries who renounced revolutionary violence in the late 70s. We left the armed communes and renewed our faith in America’s democratic process. We counseled young people to follow our example.

Of course you want to believe. Revolution has a romance to it that the young find difficult to resist. What young person hasn’t dreamt of crafting an immortal tract like Mao’s Little Red Book, or of winning honors on the battlefield like Che and the Viet Cong? That’s just part of being young. But know that you must

I completely agree. We seniors know the caucuses are intentionally designed to be torturous physical ordeals for older voters and voters with health issues. We feel the caucuses give Bernie an unfair advantage over Joe.

Look at those hideously uncomfortable steel folding chairs. Do they look senior-friendly to you? When I was young I could sit down in one of those chairs at dusk and debate politics until the crack of dawn. Now it’s an ordeal to sit 30 minutes in a chair like that, but the caucus lasts 3 hours! Caucuses are designed