It's amazing that over the span of two decades, America went from this...

[jwirr]

36. My first vote was for JFK. It is very hard to point to one thing and say that it was the cause of it

all. One thing that changed was that up to JFK this was mostly a white world. Both Democrats and Rs. Minorities were not encouraged to participate. Women too often asked their husbands how to vote. Rs mainly worked for the corporations (which were not international at that point - they were still American supporters) while the Democratic Party was still very much the old FDR party.

After JFK the world changed. Women stood up for their rights, other minorities demand the vote without poll taxes and they registered. Religions began fighting the abortion issue and had not even started to worry about equal rights for gays. They also stopped supporting social issues like hunger and the safety net. Protesters against the war and most causes showed the real divide between the eras and the use of drugs and free sex really cause a panic in the older generation. It was a total opposite.

By 1970s this could no longer be called a good old boys country. By 1972 the white population were scared. Not all whites but enough to bring about change. The Democratic Party began loosing its members to the Rs. And we ended up with Nixon.

From there it was almost all down hill. I am not sure how to explain the Clinton win. Maybe that was the beginning of swing back to the left. I don't know. After him the Rs used lies and media to con the people into voting for Rs and we lost total control until President Obama. W was probably the last gasp of those old white men trying to deny the change that is coming if democracy is allowed to run its course. President Obama's win with minority votes tells us where we are heading no matter what the good old boys want UNLESS we let them stop us from voting.

So that is how I see it - may be wrong.