I graduated from high school in 1971 and just turned 71.
Welcome to the dwindling club of those persons lucky enough to remember when we still had a reasonable number of freedoms & liberties...
Although you graduated at about the same time most freedoms were coming under a full-fledged communist sneak attack...
OTOH, I am cursed with remembering even further back to a time of Constitutionally protected freedoms & liberties...
Except I remember when FDR stole my grandparents paychecks during the war in a so-called “temporary” move to help pay for the war...
My grandfather warned me that once the Marxists had their fingers on your paycheck, they would never let go...
Once the American people got used to this atrocity, everything else since then has been a foregone conclusion...
As he also predicted...