“The SDSers were mostly BOOMERS!”
Are you sure? Tom Hayden was involved in founding SDS and drafting their Port Huron manifesto and he was born in 1939.
Of course SDS lasted all through the 1960s so it would have picked up a load of ‘Boomers who weren’t happy about the prospect of being drafted. Funny how student radicalism ended at the same time that the draft did.
Mark Rudd was born in '47...BOOMER!
All of the POS SDSers in the Columbia University riots...BOOMERS!
Though the SDS was formed in 1960, it didn't really get off the ground until '67-'68 and then it went completely NUTS.
It wasn’t so much about being drafted as it was about being sent to the Viet Nam war. All through the late 40s, 50s and early 60s we had the draft with no such protests. It was just something all us guys had to deal with. We each owed our nation a six year obligation that could be satisfied in any one of several ways. It was just a right of passage to adulthood.....until Nam.....
Student radicalism is alive and well today. It didn’t stop with the draft...we didn’t see them in the streets because they were busy taking over politics, education, embracing misunderstood groups to further their agenda. We are dealing with the results of prolonged and continuing student radicalism today. Today many are in the streets, but many are in power so can wreck things without being in the street rioting.