Who watched "The Day the 60s Died" on PBS?
These anti-war protests on college campuses - this is what we do, what we HAVE to do - to mobilize against the agressors!
Echoes of today.
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Protesting didn't end the war. Just as it didn't stop Iraq. There's a simple reason.
if the people who wanted war cared what all the many multitudes of people who don't want war thought, we wouldn't ever go to war. Seriously the only people in the world who actually like war are the class of people who not only don't have to fight it, but also make a profit from it. And the rest of the world outnumbers them by at least 50 million to one.
They don't care about our signs and songs nad puppet shows and snarky T-shirts. They are an unreasonable class of people who make gains from mass murder, and you think a drum circle on the statehouse green will make them reconsider? Maybe. But probably not.
So, up against a system that ignores protest utterly, the question is, "then what," after hte protest is over and everyone's ll satisfied with themselves, what is actually done to change it? Go home and wait a few years to vote and hope a better politician wins, who can start a trend towards tilting the house towards a better position i nthe next 20 years? doesn't much help the people being blown apart right now, does it?
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Smart,forward-looking women, excellent education. And ALL of them embraced science and evolution. (Since a lot of people seem not to understand this, I have to add that, at least in the last 75 years, this also has been the consistent official policy of the Catholic Church,too).
My own parents and their friends were somewhat like your mom. All of them were liberal Democrats in Berkeley, strong supporters of FDR, Stevenson, Kennedy, unions, racial and social justice, right down the line: but they were deeply uncomfortable with the social chaos,drugs, and riots in 1960's Berkeley . They still voted for Democrats (they at least didn't turn into "Reagan Democrats", thank goodness, and, having fought the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950's, they had already learned to be skeptical about many "authorities"
, and they were enthusiastically supportive of the racial, social and environmental progress, and educational and artistic innovation that came in the 60's -- but they hated the drugs and the chaos and, above all, the loss of civil courtesies.
My parents and their friends ultimately embraced the changes (even while still hating the drug culture and the loss of the ability of people to write thank-you notes). But I can so easily see how people more fearful and less open to change than my parents and their friends could turn to social conservatism out of fear or revulsion against the 60's (thus, the birth of "Reagan Democrats" and much of the @#$ that still plagues us today).
Then show was very well done.
Four the four.
I live out in the countryside, so we can't watch stuff online. Frustrating. We have satellite TV/internet, and there is a limit to how much bandwidth, viewing time, we get. It's our only choice. Worth the trade off to live out here, in any case!
