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To: PUGACHEV

The 60s was the decade of the generation before the boomers.

In 1960 the oldest boomer was 14.

If Eisenhower’s veep, the 1960 version of Nixon, had won the election most of the 60s would not have happened and the left would not have had so much raw meat to work with and then the follow up mass 3rd world replacement immigration to keep it going.

No Vietnam, no 1960s era dominated by Vietnam and draft resistance, no Kennedy assassinations, no unionizing of government employees, NO 1965 IMMIGRATION ACT that led to the end of America, no creating of the myth of the JFK Camelot fantasy built into the American Psyche as something that existed and then was killed by the non-liberal ugliness of the American people.

No Watergate, no Bay of Pigs fiasco, a possible President Reagan in 1968 without any Bush dynasty being created, no LBJ, no Goldwater debacle, no creation of Ted Kennedy the Senatorial Giant, no mass transformation of so many institutions such as the left solidifying control over the universities, no war against the mental hospitals, probably no affirmative action Executive Order and so much more.


32 posted on 04/24/2024 11:58:51 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
"The 60s was the decade of the generation before the boomers...."

I've taken awhile to ponder that statement and consider it from multiple angles. It is wrong. The '60s was nothing other than the Boomers coming into their own. It was Boomers who turned the Beatles demigods. It was Boomers who were buying the Mopar muscle cars, the Mustangs, the GTOs, the Trans Ams, and Firebirds in the '60s. It was Boomers who were either being drafted or protesting the war, and sometimes both. It was Boomers who were into psychodelia, drugs, long hair, bell bottoms, and all the music from the mid-'60 to the mid-'70s. These things created the culture of that decade, apart from its politics.

Those who came of age in the '60s will recall the opening lines of A Tale of two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Life, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way". How true.

59 posted on 04/25/2024 9:31:05 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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