The legacy of "The Left"

[Tom Rinaldo]

34. "Hey hey, LBJ, How many kids did you kill today!"

I turned 18 in those days. "Question Authority" pins hadn't even been dreamed up yet back then, but still we were defiant. Many of us young folk at the time had no more real sense of history than younger generations of American do now, often less so. It took me years, in some ways decades, for me to fully appreciate the history of Organized Labor in this country. Back then, more often than not, Teamsters and Construction worker hard hats for Nixon came to mind when Unions were thought of at all.

Talk about being unrealistic? How about the large percentage of students back then who honestly thought a violent but magically painless Revolution would shortly overtake America and set us firmly on the path to Peace and Love?

The Democratic Convention is not even over yet. It is way too soon to assume that many of the even most extreme protesters there will not find constructive ways to channel their fervent desire for positive change over the long haul.

I think both the Clinton and Sanders campaigns have skillfully managed the effort to unite our efforts against Trump.