Reply #16: The country was worn out ... [View All]

[IowaGuy]

protests over civil rights, Viet Nam War, riots in the streets, cities burning, assasinations, corrupt politicians (Agnew, Nixon), oil embargoes, the draft, our own National Guard shooting our own kids (Kent State), price and wage freezes, the constant litany of bad news on the tube (pictures from 'Nam being among them), 58,000 dead American boys and no coherent reason as to why we were there beyond "stopping the Red menace - th domino theory". The Executive branch and the Pentagon lying to us every single day, the nonsense of watching our leaders argue over the shape and size of the table at the Paris Peace talks....The 60's and early 70's really sucked in a lot of ways. The conservatives would like to rewrite history and convince America the problem was the "immoral smoke-dopin' hippies"...look at the list above and ask yourself, what real blame did they have for any of this?

There are certain similarities to today, yet there are differences, also. The internet is by-passing a lot of the traditional media, muting the effect of the news medias consolidation and corporate inspired wimpiness...it could be worse.