Those Who Weren’t There Are Always The Most Expert

Putting aside the '68 protest was days after MLK's murder, some of these antics of the counterculture movement helped bury Democrats at the national level for more than two decades. Nixon won in 1968 and until Clinton shocked people in 1992 there was a nearly unbroken streak of… https://t.co/wAsDXhdaSg

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 18, 2024

The "counterculture” was never popular so much as infamous. Most of the radical personalities were either rich kids or made money off their fame (no Springsteen working class characters, IOW), and college graduates who emulated Dustin Hoffman’s “Graduate” quickly turned into Yuppies after Nixon gave us Carter, and Reagan told us greed and racism were “good” again. Which is what really buried the Democrats. I was in college starting three years after Kent State. The biggest national craze associated with college students was streaking.

People forget very quickly. Look how many have to be reminded of just four years ago.

The rubber band of American culture, IOW, snapped back into place.

But civil rights prevailed (despite the death of the ERA), and the draft, bane of Vietnam that it was, is dead as the dodo.🦤 True, Boomers control the Roberts Court; but you expected Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman? The WWII generation dominated the Warren Court. The backlash to that was inevitable, too. But change still happened. As the Greeks understood, reason must always fight against chaos. It’s a permanent state of affairs. One step forward, one step back.

And Moss is old enough to take responsibility for his generation. Why haven’t they fixed all the Boomers’ mistakes? I mean, the last Boomer was born 56 years ago. Pretty sure a lot of post-Boomers voted for Trump; both times. And it was never because of “economic anxiety,” either.