re: #160 Randall Gross

What has me worried lately is that there is an “us against them” faction in the last two generations — dissing boomers is joke material to some, but there’s also a movement out there to inspire and ignite actual hate, and you can catch overtones of it in the media.

I read this earlier this am

I was at a meeting last night where politics came up and a couple of the younger men (about age 40) there openly supported Putin. This is in rural western North Carolina. I never thought I’d see that here.

It was everything I could do as a Cold War vet to keep from losing my shit.