I assume that's not real good. However, I am unashamed to say I don't know history THAT far back. Well...not ALL history, I should say. Alas...I am always here to learn.
I will admit though, that things are getting a bit nerve wracking.
The problem with the primitives--and most Dems and liberals too--is that their minds are petrified back in the 1960s.
Such as thinking the defense budget is the largest item in the federal budget. The defense budget
was the largest item in the federal budget until abut 1970, when--gasp!--Richard Nixon inflated social spending past it. For the last 40 years or so, the defense budget hasn't been but petty cash in the federal budget, but the primitives with their fossilized minds adamantly insist it's gigantic, the biggest thing there.
But more to the point here, the primitives think the Man is the "establishment." One supposes it's reasonable to assume that conservatives and Republicans, in the primitive mind, are the Man.
That used to be true, but the Man, the Old Order, was demolished circa the mid-term elections of 1974.
The hippies took over. Everything that had been on the hippie agenda during the 1960s was legal, or at least socially acceptable, by 1980. The hippies, the "rebels," had become the Man.
They are the Establishment, and have been for circa 35 years.
They are the Man.
Such was, or is, their grip upon politics, popular culture, and the news media that even Ronald Reagan and the second George Bush were just a superficial phenomenon, much like when a corrupt inner-city machine "allows" a "reformer" to capture city hall. It gives an appearance someone is trying to clean up the mess.
Not to disparage Reagan or Bush--no way; they did what they could, all they could--but the Man was too strong for them, and of course came back in 2008. Both Reagan and Bush could've done a whole lot more to better the lot of America, and humanity in general, but the Man was just too strong.
And then we had 1994, 2000, and 2010, in which the Old Order was upset. Not quite overthrown, but crumbling.
History is a fluid thing, always changing, and if one is living in the middle of it, it gets muddled. Especially during revolutions (who remembers any more that the famous Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 lasted but a few hours, and happened only because the other side got caught off guard on a minor thing?).
I could go on and on about this, but essentially, the primitives and their allies the Dems and liberals, are the Man, and have been for more than a generation.
Decent and civilized people are the revolutionaries here.
