The JFK corruption made this election look tame. MacNamara ran a war for profit. I don’t mean to diminish those who went to Vietnam...but hindsight is 20/20.
What has changed is the echo chamber found on social media (FR included.). We tend to read and favor that which makes us most comfortable. Everyone should stretch their legs and wallow in the crap from the other side. Every once in a while you might find a truth. Not often, mind you. But I have eternal hope.
As I tell my son in law, I hope I grow old enough for his beautiful two year old daughter to inform him how he is ruining her life with his outdated rules. That would make me laugh out loud.
I suppose you are right. I was 18 when JFK was elected and in fact being non political then I voted for him. I knew nothing of his past, family or policies but just thought he was cool because he was so much younger than the old fogies who usually run.
I was just 21 and in the UK (USAF) when he was assassinated and when I heard the news my first thought was “Oh shit now I’ll never get back home in January”. January 14th was my date of rotation back to the ZI and I was a rabid short termer just dying to go back home to the land of the “Big BX”.