Who said I was blaming the war on the BB’s?
I didn’t have a problem with the war then or now. Parents were hard line Birchers and Arizona Republicans, it’s a foregone conclusion for us!
But far more of them then you may admit were parroting ridiculous crap about the ultimate aims of the Communists EVERYWHERE and willfully ignoring their past.
As far as the ‘72 election, I was in college in a conservative state that year and I can tell you that McGovern was a popular guy on campus. Never heard anyone admit they were for Dick.
There’s no doubt that the war had major support up until 1970, and after that...tapering off. Was it just a small, noisy minority that scared Kissinger and Nixon into negotiating a way out?
Could be. But they certainly did make a LOT of noise if so...and changed the whole country in the process.
But Kissinger and others would not have negotiated that if they thought the country was behind them. Maybe they didn’t see your poll numbers.
Regardless of the people you knew, McGovern only won 46% of the under 30 vote, and the under 30s were the age group that was more supportive of the war than any other age group, including the age groups leading the nation, in fact especially the over 49 age group.
The under 30 support was always much higher than the 49 and over who were always against the war, and almost always over the 30-49, frequently it was double that of the over 49 year olds, for instance in 1971.
You might want to narrow your broad brush, and even redirect your ire at who gave the world Pol Pot.