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I was going to say that I don’t think many people even thought in terms such as Left or Right Wing back then.

Then I remembered The Daisy Girl TV ad in 1964.
I don’t recall seeing it that year, but heard about it much later.

In 1964, L. Johnson ran a commerical depicting a little girl counting daisies. After she counts out daisy petal number 9,
a male voice takes over to say “TEN!”
as the start of a missile launch countdown.
This was to warn people not to vote for Barry Goldwater, because, the ad implied Goldwater would push us toward Nuclear War.

I was going to say that I don’t think many people even thought in terms such as Left or Right Wing back then.

During the Republican Convention in San Francisco that nominated Goldwater the MSM got a very rough reception with booing and shaking off fists at the broadcast booths.

This was to warn people not to vote for Barry Goldwater, because, the ad implied Goldwater would push us toward Nuclear War.

"I was told that if I voted for Goldwater, we'd have riots in the streets and we'd be in a long, un-winnable war.....Well I voted for Goldwater, and darned if they weren't right."

“I was going to say that I don’t think many people even thought in terms such as Left or Right Wing back then.”

I agree with you. I don’t think such terms were popular until the great cultural divide beginnings in the latter part of the 60’s that continued on in the 70’s with the Democrats winning the Vietnam War*, getting the Roe Vs Wade decision and getting their first full retard/lefty president in office (Carter).

*The commies won, the dems are commies that made the falling of the South possible.

Yeah— Goldwater, a confirmed Libertarian (even more than many of those who claim to be one today— moreso than Rand Paul and his dad)- who was anti-Vietnam war escalation and an Air Force pilot— yes, he was going to “push us to nuclear war” during an era when the Soviets were escalating ICBM production and which followed their placing ICBMS 90 miles from the US, in Cuba== missiles that the commie psychopath Che’ Guevara had literal control of, and wanted to fire them.

Whenever you see someone with a Che’ shirt or some such— always remind them that he WANTED to fire nuclear missiles on the US (and he had the codes to do so, stolen from the soviets, btw). Remind them how much “peace” he wanted— a psychopathic killer who enjoyed shooting little teenage boys, sons of prominent Cuban business leaders— in the head a point blank range while looking them right in the face.

Goldwater would have gotten us OUT of Vietnam faster and better than Nixon. the mil-industrial complex LOVED LBJ constant micro managing (see Pueblo incident) and idiotic “war plan”. Not to mention keeping McNamara at it. Sheesh.

Clinton campaign found the 3 yr old girl that was in the Daisy ad and had her express concern for the future...the ad goes on to hint that as President Trump would be crazy and irresponsible and start a nuclear war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npNqT3N1XoQ

During the '64 campaign quite a few of my middle school-aged friends were hating on Goldwater, saying he was crazy because he wanted to "drop bombs" on North Vietnam. Well, about a year later LBJ was dropping bombs on North Vietnam and I asked those same "friends" about it, and why they didn't think Johnson was "crazy" for dropping those bombs on North Vietnam the same as Goldwater said he'd do. IIRC most of the replies were things like "Johnson dropping those bombs was different that Goldwater dropping them". My reply was to ask the people being bombed if it was different. Then I usually got called a name or told to shut up.

See how 'Rat "logic" starts with the younger generation and poisons the young skulls full of mush?