I don't think nothing will happen, especially on the scale of the 1968 Rat convention. They predicted disturbances back in 2000 for the RNC Philly convention.
I was just saying to a friend, "Ain't it funny how the media keeps predicting violence and they get it?" It goes back to Rodney King...the media was reporting non-stop about what was to come if the verdict didn't go the "right way."
Actually, I think it goes back to Oedipus, but that's another story for a different thread...
From an interview by David Horowitz:
In Radical Son I tell the story how Tom Hayden planned the riot that took place at the Democratic convention in '68. Just to give people a little history, in 1948 which was my first political demonstration I marched in the demonstration, it was a Communist controlled mayday parade.
And we were chanting, 1,2,3,4 we don't want another war, that was the cold war against Communism; 5,6,7,8 win with Wallace in '48, that was Henry Wallace. And what happened in 1948 is that the Communists who had been tremendously influential in the Roosevelt years marched out of the Democratic party because they didn't like Harry Truman had sent military aid to Greece and Turkey to resist the Communist takeover.
And so the Communist party organized a new party, it was called the Progressive party. They got FDR's former Vice President, Henry Wallace to be their presidential candidate. And they got a million and a half votes. That was when the "left" marched out of the Democratic party and they stayed out until 1972.
And it's interesting that a young politician who cut his eye teeth in the Wallace campaign of '48, that was his first big campaign was George McGovern. But what happened to make the McGovern candidacy possible was that Tom Hayden in 1968 organized the riot at the Democratic party convention. Of course, the history books will call it a police riot and image that Richard Daly started the riot, but it was Tom Hayden who picked Chicago and plotted enough provocations so that a riot ensued which I describe in my book. (My note = I read the book - Tom Hayden gave specific instructions to kill "pigs".)
And the result was that Hubert Humphrey, who was an anti-Communist liberal his presidential chances were destroyed. Humphrey would have been president in '68 if it weren't for this demonstration. And in the year that followed, Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda and other radicals marched into the Democratic party, changed the rules and shifted the party far to the left from what it once was. And that's why you have all those former Democrats like Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston who are now Republicans.
Here's the rest, it's pretty interesting.
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/horowitz.htmlPhilly never had the numbers show up for the left wing rallies that NYC does, they are HUGE!
We Freepred them almost every time, this time, though, it is going to be different, we can surely expect 1968 all over again