
Originally Posted by
Jay Zeno
OK, for you youngsters, '68 was a special year in bad ways. RFK and MLK assassinated. Tet offensive and big body counts coming out of Vietnam. Student riots. The year had a wistful cap of the Apollo mission going around the moon.
The "student" protests at the Democratic convention in Chicago in '68 ultimately led to huge riots during the convention and a malaise of the Democratic party that presidential year. (Whether you wish to believe that the SDS or Chicago police were the impetus for rioting, the fact remains that the country was horribly polarized at the time, and the situation was a tinderbox awaiting a spark.) The SDS and then Weathermen bragged at that time how they went and "tore up pig city." Now, that wasn't pretty.
So I'm looking forward to a nice, manipulative, dirty fighting, Machiavellian joust that pisses off half the party, no matter who wins, and continues the fine Democratic tradition of self-immolation when it comes to picking presidential candidates.
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