Your entire argument is based on a series of false equivalencies and misdirections. The SDS and the Weathermen had almost no mainstream political influence rel

Your entire argument is based on a series of false equivalencies and misdirections. The SDS and the Weathermen had almost no mainstream political influence relative to the business lobby, so obviously they can’t be compared in this way. Public college administration increasingly became corporatized and managed by the same business interests. Elite universities always have been. Local planning boards are captured by the wealthy in their communities. The economic trouble was driven by the oil shock, not high rates of unionization. Many countries in Europe have high rates of unionization and are not in anyway “barren.”