Bad signal to send on fiscal responsibility. Can we just “move on” and stop talking about the 1960s? Sure, it gave blacks civil rights, but it also gave us Bill Ayers and other Communist criminals that are now running our country. Can we go back in time, keep civil rights and avoid LBJ’s “Great Society?”
Northwestern University should hang their head in shame over Ayer’s wife.
In the early 90’s I was teaching in a school in northeast NJ. In the classroom next to mine there was a class called “The 60’s” being offered. Most days I could hear the soundtrack of some video being played replete with rock music, protest chants, police chiefs being interviewed at the scenes of riots, the sounnds of [the Viet Nam] war, etc. The particular segment about the Tate-Lobianco [sp?] murders with the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” riff blasting away has stuck with me—imagine time in a high school classroom being devoted to exploring the “intriguing” psyche of Charles Manson! This went on all year. Every year.
Eventually, I would get to the point where I would discuss with my obviously distracted class how the 60’s were viewed by some as a sort of “Great Awakening” while others viewed it as a great turn for the worse in our national story.
As I used to tell my classes back then: Americans packed up their VW minibus with all their gear (some of them forgot the soap), along with all their friends and all their possibilities and went upstate to camp out at some great rock and roll revival. Unfortunately, the VeeDub got stuck in the mud and some of us never made it back.