I still remember where I was when I heard the news. I guess now, with more perspective, it's just the event that ushered in the awful decade in my mind. Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, King assassination, second Kennedy assassination, urban riots, campus riots, Manson family, ROTC buildings burned, hippies, troops spat upon, home grown terrorism, hey if the government spends enough money we can eliminate poverty . . .
It always strikes me as some kind of twisted joke when liberals wax nostalgic for the Sixties. Ask them why and they throw the Civil Rights Act in you face like you must be a racist. Seriously? One good thing does not erase the rest of the awful decade.
Thanks colorado tanker.
It always strikes me as some kind of twisted joke when liberals wax nostalgic for the Sixties.
That's because many of them were young, and we all remember the time of our youth fondly -- I came of age in the 1970s, and thanks to OPEC's embargo and Jimmy effin' Carter in the White House, that was a miserable decade. But I'd gladly be back there (and that age) again. :')
Another reason the libs wax nostalgic for the Sixties is, they like to think they almost succeeded in overthrowing the gov't and instituting a single party state with "their own kind" in charge.
Instead, the so-called anti-war movement led to Nixon's squeaking in in 1968, a small budget surplus in his first full year in office, *eventually* a face-saving agreement to get out of Vietnam, the Nixon landslide and repudiation of McGovernism, the end of the draft and of mandatory draft registration (the latter was reinstituted under Jimmy effin' Carter), the troops (including John McCain) coming home, and paranoia and backstabbing by a liberal mole (several, in fact) leading to Nixon's downfall.
The 1970s led us to Ronald Reagan, but without Nixon, there would have been no Reagan, just as there would have been no Nixon without Goldwater, and for that matter, without LBJ there would have been none of 'em.