What we have here is total opposition to the election of Trump and the ensuing rise of violence against Republicans, Conservatives and anyone else the Left hates.
For that very reason, it's a smaller group.
In 1968 students were up in arms about the possibility that they'd be sent to Vietnam.
You don't get that many people getting upset about more purely political questions.
Yes, I know that not all college students were radicalized back then, but still, those who were were, proportionately, a larger part of the population than today's leftists.
The next two years may be as terrible and messy as anything we have seen since 1968, a throw back to the unstable times as observed in Western Europe in the 1960’s a 70’s.
It could be like America back then, but not Europe. What you see on the left now is mostly negative - they hate Trump. In that regard, it's like American leftists hated Johnson or Nixon. European radicals in the '70s and '80s thought that they were going to remake the world through violent action. Left-wing radicals were more of a problem there than they were here. While you do hear more about socialism now than in the recent past, I don't think you have that kind of strong faith in it that there once was.
We are going to have to wait and see how this goes. The real problem as I see it is the MSM, if they are really going to go full tilt boogie and promote violence as a credible reason to oppose Trump, Republicans, and Conservatives.
The real Hate is coming from the Left and the MSM. If I had to blame someone for the Jewish killings I would have to start with them. They have pushed a 90% Negative atmosphere on Trump since his election as if we are in the last days of the Weimar Republic.
That’s exactly right. And not only were the young people personally afraid of being drafted and sent to war, they were the “baby boom” - meaning there was a whole lot of them, demographically speaking. They had just earned or were about to earn their political voice by virtue of turning 18, and feared personally for what they may be forced to do.
It’s not the same. And today’s youth have been raised on phamraceuticals to deal with their angst. You gotta find some amusement at the notion that 25% of youth exhibit or claim symptoms of PTSD at the notion of Trump’s victory. Truly they earn the word ‘unhinged’ if they allow all this noise to infect their view of themselves; and it’s got very little to do with Trump and more to do with the agitation and fear mongering in the chattering classes - the people who spread phobia with comments like “Trump is going to unleash nuclear war” etc. The chattering classes know better and are shameful in their nonstop assault on anything Trump and constantly blaming Trump, but the kids don’t have any perspective on elections or politics or world affairs.
The media and the Dems have gone way overboard in a naked attempt to grab power they haven’t earned and abused when they had it. They had it all in 2008 and frittered it away by deliberately and intentionally flaunting the will of the voters in starting in 2010. The voters came out to stop Obamacare by taking Congress away from the Dems and they pushed it through in a lame duck session anyway. It is one thing to have power and use the media to provide cover, it’s another thing and much harder to do to try to leverage the media and the media alone into power. But right now that’s all they have. They deserve to lose big next Tuesday. Maybe if they do they will change their tactics, but I doubt it. They don’t have anything else, no ideas, and lots of old people and foolish people vying for leadership. In part that’s because they fumbled and lost 2/3 of every state governorship, statehouse and are looking at a 56-58 seat deficit in the Senate next week. They don’t have a good bench of politicians to draw on. The field is wide open for a “Trump like” billionaire to step in and run over the Democratic primary in 2020.