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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (85144)	8/9/2000 8:14:05 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 108807

It was a clash of elites vs. populists. In their smugness and arrogance, the protestors thought they were speaking for all America. Neither side, very obviously, spoke for all America. I suspect that both sides were more diverse than you think, and that the loudest and ugliest elements on both sides got the most attention. I also think that the situation probably changed over time: what started out as largely a University-based elite movement gradually developed more of a mass base. One factor influencing this, I suspect, was that members of the working class had less natural access to information on the actual situation, and were thus slower to surrender the illusion that we were fighting an updated version of World War II. The terms of debate, remember, were different then: those were the days when Conservatives backed the Government reflexively, and people who questioned the Government were radicals. An odd shift, no? What is astonishing to me is that so few of the Americans who went through those years of strife came out of them knowing anything about Vietnam, or about how the conflict began. How many Americans know when and why Vietnam was divided?

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