I’ve seen each episode. While left-of-center, they aren’t leftist. They do a great job giving a person a feeling for what it was like in those years, especially the first three episodes. A bit over-the-top with their 1950’s stereotyping, but you have to remember a lot of people on the fringes did feel excluded from mainstream society. The series really does help make sense of the Sixties.
After viewing, you think perhaps a majority of people felt and thought about issues as they are described in the series. I would say that at times people’s fluctuating attitudes maybe did describe the majorities’ beliefs at various times. But the series and all the people they interview in 1991 stops there and just assumes their liberal viewpoint is normal and held by a majority of people right to 1991 and through to today. But it isn’t and it doesn’t.
The liberals never left their heady days of cultural zeitgeist of the 1960’s. Now we know better to think that the liberal way is the only way.
The main lesson of real life: Diversity is NOT our strength.
In a way, it does (though not in a way that made it any better of a time period). I definitely know the Vietnam Veteran and Lawyer were the only guys in the opening who truly impressed me (I don’t know if they actually were conservative or liberal, though). At least the Veteran actually called out the Sixties as being a bad time and cited smoking weed as one of the reasons (though that being said, he did unfortunately imply that we shouldn’t have been in Vietnam), and the deep-voiced glasses wearing Lawyer definitely seemed to be advocating that the Weathermen be executed based on what he was saying.
And yeah, definitely agreed. Diversity only results in division (heck, it’s literally in the root word for it.), not true strength.