You haven't told us how many of your sacrifices were your decisions or were forced on you by the vicissitudes of life. Don't bother to tell me. I'm not in any way judgemental of people I don't know, just, maybe, a bit judgemental of the things they claim... I find it ironic that you seem to be slightly the opposite...

With hundreds of others, including the missus and our young kids, I lay down on the road in Kensington Church Street to protest against nuclear weapons. We were pretending to be the nuclear dead. In the 80s if I remember correctly. We closed the road for hours, and I didn't notice any mentally-sick people or middle-class grandstanding nutters. Funny thing is, pfr, I was actually there. I don't consciously associate with nutters, even if I think they're on my side. But I was there to see what was going on, what the dynamic was. Perhaps you should take yourself off to the next road protest. There's the possibility that it might just open your eyes.