Boomers, We Need You to Remember the 1960s (and Vote for the Future You All Saw Coming Back Then)

Why a Bernie Sanders vote can help mend the broken heart of America.

I’m laying on my futon, listening to Crosby, Stills. Nash and Young’s classic album “Deja Vu” after seeing the lead song from that Aquarian Age album, “Carry On” play over a triumphant scene in Netflix’s “Messiah.”

And I really ought to be going to bed but this essay has been poking at my consciousness, wanting to enter the world, for two months now.

It’s the eve of the second of three big primary days in the U.S. elections and, well, a week ago I had put this essay on the backburner because I just didn’t believe it was necessary.

I didn’t believe that the Democratic Party’s last-minute rally around Joe Biden would work. I felt like history had passed Ole Joe by and that there was enough momentum and enthusiasm behind Bernie Sanders to stave off any efforts by the Establishment to stop the progressive movement.

But, like you, Baby Boomers, 50 years ago, was I wrong? Were we wrong?

Do you remember? So many of you felt that the New Age was dawning, that your Youth Movement was going to be ascendent as it was fueled by sex, drugs and rock n roll…