@glitterbag,
Quote:It kills me to say that might be right, but I still remember the day Kennedy was shot and my mother talking to the next door neighbor saying how awful it was. I was stunned when he replied, well we have two more to go and that will take care of things.
And ain't that something. I grew up in a little BC town with a big Mennonite community in the area. My mother was shopping in Safeway when the news began to spread. An older lady in the checkout line began crying and said, "Now the communists will take over". My mom, being not stupid, recognized a crank when she saw one.
I'm reading Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" now. Rick is one of the great young historians presently writing and the book is terrific in research, detail and intelligence. But one doesn't get far in before the events and the rhetoric and the ideological divides of the sixties start to look very much like what's going
on today in America. Of course, there are robust differences in all sorts of ways between then and now but the tragic similarities are there too.
