some heavy-handedness by LEOs and COINTEL agents.
If fascism wins today, protesters will be killed on the spot. Not 4 like Kent State, but all protesters.
Yes, the draft was fear-inducing. As a female, I did not personally face it. But I knew one guy who went underground and then to Canada. I knew couples who married right after high school graduation and had children immediately, for a draft deferment. I knew guys who were drafted and never came home. My brother was already in the Navy as a career before Vietnam. He spent 2 years there and was never the same afterward.
The MIC was in full force then. It was not even a declared war. Our international standing was hurt by it and families were split because of views over it.
But in spite of all that, our institutions still functioned. Facts were still facts. Lies could be called out. The 4th estate still stood up to speak truth to power and to the people. I remember Cronkite's nightly news reports with two sets of casualty figures on the war. One was the official count. The other was eye witness accounts.
Our elections and Congress were not controlled by a hostile foreign power. Desegregation was under way and minorities were getting their voting rights. Their battles for it were brutal, accompanied by murders. But they persisted and made gains.
Today these gains are being wiped out. Half of Congress are owned by a madman who answers to a foreign leader and incites insurrection.
We are one election away from full blown fascism.
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