A graying generation founded on peace and love finds its champion: Bernie Sanders
Not just for millennials anymore?!
A graying generation founded on peace and love finds its champion: Bernie Sanders
By Stephanie McCrummen May 30 at 2:30 PM
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — It is a glorious day in Northern California, and Lewis Elbinger, a 68-year-old Bernie Sanders supporter, is feeling great — or, as he puts it, “high vibe.” In the five decades since he first painted a white peace sign on his forehead, protested the Vietnam War and hitchhiked to India to become a monk, in fact, he has never felt more optimistic about the country than at this very moment.
“A consciousness is rising,” he says.
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“I have personally seen the cost of poverty, of these children being disenfranchised from the economic system,” begins a young mental-health worker named Randall.
“I’m Native American, and Bernie’s the only one who’s ever cared about us,” says a young man named Erik.
“Bernie’s our only hope you guys,” says a mother of four named Karissa, her voice rising as she explains that she is overwhelmed with bills and is about to lose her house and that she is shouting because she is terrified. “I will stand with him for hours! I will stand with him for days! I will stand with him until my feet are bleeding, my knees are buckling! I will stand with him until I’m exhausted and fall down, and then I’ll grab one of you guys to stand me up to stand with him some more!”
A 67-year old woman recalls hearing Martin Luther King speak at the March on Washington in 1963. A man in his 70s recalls attending the tumultuous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. A Legal Aid lawyer recalls marching against the Vietnam War.
“Many of you remember those times,” he says.
In the audience, Elbinger is nodding, because of course he does. He remembers everything about those times, and that is the reason why he is here, walking up to the stage, a white-haired, 68-year-old Jewish man still clinging to all the ideas that first inspired him.
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(I mean the movie, of course. If everyone who SAYS they were at Woodstock was ACTUALLY at Woodstock, there would have been roughly 25 million people there!)
Right arm. Outta state. Power to the purple. Don't eat the brown acid.
got the impression there was an agenda to show these Bernie supporters in a ridiculous light -- aren't they kinda quirky and cute -- to make more conservative, or less new-agey, people re-think their affiliation with Bernie & his supporters.
I'm a passionate Bernie supporter, but I have a distinct allergy to most things spiritually or otherwise "trippy"
despite being myself accused of New-Agey-ness). The article seems unnecessarily descriptive of the hippietrippie stuff, which I don't relate to nor do many other old hippies who grew up and learned to think for themselves, rather than follow a new set of rites rituals or people who tell you how to think and what sort of candles you ought to light.
This article paints a goofy picture of such a person, my opinion, ergo not beneficial to Bernie's campaign but aaaaaaaaaah ... probably doesn't MATTER ffs .. need coffee I think..... 
<--- thas me trying to think for myself at 5am pls forgive me if I totally misread and misinterpreted the writer.
That's another thing non-millennials do-overthink! 
Bernie is the only one who has been speaking out for all of us, young, old and in between. we are the majority too I might add. Trouble is there is so much bullshit that some get overwhelmed by it all.
I like good people and Bernie Sanders in one hell of a good person and will make us a great President. Jane will make us proud as our first Lady too. Way more so than bill will as first whatthefuckever they wind up calling his stinking ass. 
