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First off, check your tone. I'm 39, but does that really matter?

I don't think the protests that I've seen (yes, in old footage, not "live") from, e.g., the '68 Dem Convention caused any kind of cultural decline. If they "caused" anything, it was a narrow Nixon win in '68 and an landslide win in '72. Protests (of that nature) don't CAUSE cultural decline; they open a window onto insanity, and turn people off to the protesters' cause.

First off, check your tone.

Okay, now I'm ticked!!! There was no "tone" there, but you will see one now.

they open a window onto insanity, and turn people off to the protesters' cause.

That is factually incorrect. This is not the time or place to to argue the facts.

I don't think the protests that I've seen (yes, in old footage, not "live") from, e.g., the '68 Dem Convention caused any kind of cultural decline. If they "caused" anything, it was a narrow Nixon win in '68 and an landslide win in '72. Protests (of that nature) don't CAUSE cultural decline; they open a window onto insanity, and turn people off to the protesters' cause.

Old TV footage does not offer the insight needed to understand the counterculture movement of that time in history.

It was a destructive force, and it's ramifications surround us today. We can see it in the marxist ideology of the democrat party, it's members the protestors back then.Look to the cultural marxism that infects our public schools and universities, the teachers and professors who set policy today were burning their bras,American flags and draft cards 40 years ago.

Well, pogo, I was there during those riots, and I can sit here today in 2007 and tell you with all my heart, they did indeed cause cultural decline.

Millions of good, decent people became the now famous "silent majority" because back then, the hallmark of good and decent people was that they minded their own business, did not riot in the streets, and did not discuss politics or religion at gatherings. Just good manners back then...

The Chicago Seven, the Kent State protesters, the Paris peace talks, the Moratorium, et al helped to fracture the national unity, and it has never really recovered. I am not that much older than you. I was a teenaged war bride, and I felt so sad and betrayed to see what was happening.
My Dad was a MM veteran of WWII. He was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Wales. He was a very strong, very smart man. What the hippies and the Commies did broke his heart.

You weren't there so you don't realize the damage that they are trying to do to our country again. Please join us in Washington on March 17th and stand up for your rights. For only one day, all of us need to stand up for our country and our troops.

I'm 39, but does that really matter?

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Of course it does! You are only able to make your evaluations and your comments by what you learned from the same media that, I hope, you recognize as lying to you today. If you were born in 1966, you can learn a lot from other Freepers who were adults in 1966.