Are Portland, Seattle, and Chicongo 2020 better or worse than the rioting cities of 1967?
I think that the riots were as bad, but they weren’t as, uh, “popular” as they seem to be now. They didn’t have the support of a mainline party (the Dems), the mayors, the governors, and the prosecutors. So, I’d say today’s are more dangerous.
On the slightly plus side, the 1967 riots were almost totally racial, to my memory. Today’s have a significant racial component (black looting in Chicago, for example), but an amount of masked white boy Antifa support that didn’t exist in 1967.
The riots of 1967 only lasted a few days, but they were probably more destructive.
There were no race riots in California, but we read about them in the newspaper, and some of us believed that a race war was about to break out.
“Are Portland, Seattle, and Chicongo 2020 better or worse than the rioting cities of 1967?”
That’s a very good question.
1967 and 1968 saw a lot more people killed and at least an equal amount or more of looting and city destruction. However, the police weren’t near so constrained as they are now and the full impact of the education system rot had not taken over. I think what is going on now is far more dangerous due to years of brainwashing kids and the communist takeover of the democrat party. The American people as a whole hated the crap of the 60’s but the % now is much, much less that do. We are in for rough times. IMHO.