“Maybe Barry hallucinated ‘his version’ of the event.”
And, that is really my comment. His romanticism of these different events have shaped a distorted view of any of those realities.
That is really the problem I have with him: he is fully engaged in the abstract and indulges “real” policies that try to use false notions of history.
Whether it is not being smart enough to know the actual history of an event or bastardizing known principles of economics (or geo political strategies)...he still suffers from a willing ignorance or a desired romanticism.
Here’s my watermark memory of the 60s.
For reasons known only to my dad, [political obliviousness, no doubt] he took us to Canada in 1969 for vacation.
We camped in a park FULL of hippies and my dad had to escort us womenfolk back and forth to the bathrooms because naked, screaming, filthy hippies were dancing and shrieking around bonfires all night.
They harassed anyone non-hippy every chance they got.
Everything I needed to know about them I learned that night.
[truly, it looked like a scene from Dante’s Inferno]