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> Nothing much has changed. In the way you're referencing, the US was extremely divided in the 1960's and is extremely divided again now. Don't believe the hyp
by parineum 3y ago
> Nothing much has changed. In the way you're referencing, the US was extremely divided in the 1960's and is extremely divided again now.
Don't believe the hype. There were bombings and assassinations in the 60s.
Partisanship has increased in recent memory but we don't come close to replicating the division caused by the ripples of the red scare, a draft for the vietnam war and a burgeoning and sometimes violent civil rights movement.
These days, people talk the talk but they fail to walk the walk like they did then.
- tremon 3y agoI'm not sure what argument you're making, but if you measure social division purely by looking at public displays of violence you're going to miss all the warning signs until it's too late.
- parineum 3y ago"Warning signs" are for the future. The comment was equating the extreme division of the 60s with now, not the future. You can make the argument that the present division is a warning sign of a future that will be equivalent to the division of the 60s but that's a very different argument.
- Animats 3y ago"Partisanship has increased in recent memory but we don't come close to replicating the division caused by the ripples of the red scare, a draft for the Vietnam war and a burgeoning and sometimes violent civil rights movement. These days, people talk the talk but they fail to walk the walk like they did then." That may be because there are no longer large numbers of people protesting the same thing. Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter never got organized enough to push through a political agenda. Q-Anon was a hoax. The GOP, having won on guns and abortion, now lacks a coherent issue. Organized labor, once very powerful, isn't organized enough any more to push hard for anything. Nobody has enough mass to form a mass movement.