To be honest, all I cared about as a kid in 1972, was "when is Steve Carlton going to pitch again?" 27-10 (on a last-place team), 1.97 ERA, 310 strikeouts, unanimous Cy Young Award winner.
That was the year I was born!
I believe that in the early 70s, a small percentage of America went crazy and got a lot of media coverage. Most Americans looked at the TV and said, “Those people are no good.”
In 2018, about half the people in America are crazy and they control the entire media. Half of America watch these people spout madness and they say, “See? Everyone agrees with me! Trump really is Hitler!”
Bill Ayres and others from that period are still around and stirring things up.
Same people/type of people. Same problems
Harvard boy....now that does figure doesn't it....
At least that was when the NHL was an art form, with oldtimers like Tim Horton, Alex Delvecchio, Gump Worsley, and Dean Prentice still playing and the California Golden Seals were still in the league and places like Boston Garden and Detroit’s Olympia were still NHL arenas and the Los Angeles Kings still had their purple and gold uniforms and Guy Lafleur still wore a helmet and Andy Brown was one of the few maskless goalies in pro hockey, Connie Madigan was the league’s oldest rookie in the few games he played with the St. Louis Blues in his late 30’s after years of being in the old Western Hockey League, etc.
I wonder if Brian Doherty was even around in 1972.
I was 19 in that year, and can attest that the kooky left of those days can’t hold a candle to the hair-on-fire, foaming at the mouth, rabid mouth breathing, psychotically deranged left of today.
Heck, this country even had conservative, patriotic Democrats back in that time.
Hard core liberals, such as are commonplace today, were few, and most definitely on the fringes of society.
They were only just beginning to gain a real foothold in academia - at least above the radar.
Sure, the so-called ‘counter culture’ was still around from the sixties, but their heyday had come and gone. Vietnam was winding down, and the whole country was tired of fighting.
I could go on and on -— it was just a far different (and better) time than where we’re at today.
The lefty, stupid, POS authors of this patently ridiculous, specious book, don’t know nor understand the times they wrote this biased crap about.
I got out of the Army 31 March 1972. The rest of the year is a blur. All I remember is a tavern and Coors for $.35 a glass.
To answer your question...in one way it was MUCH worse, yet in another it was far better.
Imagine, if you will, if the BLM, Antifa, and all of the moronic females who march & protest today, along with those crazies who try to shoot GOPers were one group, led by people who actually knew what they were doing and made plans as a real army does. That's what the late '60s and early '70s were like. There WAS blood in a whole LOT of streets and bombs set off.
OTOH...though the lefties spewed nothing but foul language, "normal" people didn't; except for me, when I hit back at the SCUM, using their own words against them, which shocked the XXXX outta them, because I was their age, not on their side, and was better at intimidation than they were.
The worst thing about the early 70s was that American cars were beginning to suck. It got worse in ‘73, probably as part of the Divine punishment for Roe v. Wade.
To be honest, all I cared about as a kid in 1972, was "when is Steve Carlton going to pitch again?" 27-10 (on a last-place team), 1.97 ERA, 310 strikeouts, unanimous Cy Young Award winner.
I was also a big NHL hockey fan that year and watched the Bruins cruise to a second Stanley Cup in three years.
No, 2018 is exponentially worse than 1972 due to the way the New Left of that time has become entrenched in the intelligence community, the court system, and culture at large since then.
In the early 70’s, there was huge stress over Vietnam. Kids were being drafted into the military against their will and then sent to some godawful jungle half a world away to suffer and die for no discernible reason. It was massively unfair and it made no sense.
Vietnam was the opening the cultural marxists had been waiting for to really grab the US by the throat. They absolutely maxed out on the opportunity presented. What they sowed then they are harvesting now.
But even with Vietnam and the rise of the left, Americans basically agreed about culture and shared values in the 70’s. That is no longer true. Now we hate each other and have no common ground. There was only 1 other time in our history when that was the case and it led to war. If we don’t fix what’s happening right now, the result will be the same. You can deny history if you want. But that doesn’t keep it from repeating.
Leary made a run for President and John Lennon wrote his campaign song, “Come Together”. That is how I remember it. Turn on, tune in, drop out.
I was stationed at Ft. Polk at the time. Having come from a very liberal college town, for me there was this kind of schizophrenia, being too young to understand the big picture of the culture war, at the time.
We were being pulled in different directions at the time. It was easy to know what was right as far as God duty and country was concerned, but the press made the government out to be the villains. And in fact, many in it probably were, as well as the fourth estate, i.e. the MSM, Walter Cronkite, et al. Remember, there were only the established 3 networks for news.
I envy those that profess to have fully understood what was happening at that moment in time. Maybe they were older or spent more time studying current events. Most 19 year olds don’t.
At least today, we have the internet, with unfiltered information available, and President Trump!
I like to think his world view evolved like many of us in that time period. I also like to think Donald Trump’s attending a military academy had a part in his pragmatic, realist approach to problems. It did for me.
No.
It wasn’t that bad in 1972.
This article is a farce trying hard to be relevant. 1972 was a walk in the park on a spring day compared to 2018 America.
I lived through that in a major hippie locale.
Today is worse. Much worse.