Americorps?.................
Americorps II...because Americorps I under Billy Boy was so successful /sar
Americorps, or VISTA, were programs that just sort of petered out, much like the Civilian Conservation Corps of the days of FDR and the New Deal of the 1930’s, were of usefulness only during periods of economic contraction and recession.
The outbreak of a foreign war ended the days of CCC, but the alumni of that organization made up much of the number of the NCO’s that led the troops into close combat with both the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, or the Third Reich on the other side of the world, and were core members of our Greatest Generation.
The concept was reborn in the days of the New Frontier, under JFK, and the VISTA and the Peace Corps were created as an alternative to what at the time was a universal military training draft for young men of America. Inevitably, these organizations became havens for incubating and cultivating the US version of the Soviet work legions, and the ideology embraced was pretty close to the Soviet line. Many of the protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s grew out of alumni of these programs, and America reaped the whirlwind as these “baby boomers” age into adulthood.
And now they want to renew the franchise to create a NEW generation of vipers? After seeing what they were able to do while operating under the radar, it is all the more imperative to keep the spotlight shining on them.