Letter to the editor: Revolution?

Lawrence Journal-World opinion section

To the editor:

Hey, Millennials, what’s so revolutionary about Bernie Sanders and his pie-in-the sky socialism? You say Hillary is old hat and is weighed down by all her baggage. What could be more sclerotic and burdened by the heavy load of history than a 168-year-old political philosophy derived, in its modern era aspect, from Karl Marx and his 1849 Communist Manifesto, which, at its best, has served to smooth the sharp edges of predatory capitalism and, at its worse, has brought to the world Stalin and the Gulag?

I understand your idealism. I campaigned for peace candidate Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and marched against the war in which I had served. But remember your history! The end result of my generation’s idealism was the election of Richard Nixon in the “revolutionary year” of 1968. Be careful for what you wish.

“You say you wanna revolution.” What could be more revolutionary than electing the first female president in U.S. history? Now, that would be a revolution that could actually happen!