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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (66352)	4/12/2018 3:04:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364482

No, as I have said many times the 60's was the first major existential revolution in the history of humankind. That makes it as important as "The Age of Enlightenment", which it was! <Message #66352 from Wharf Rat at 4/12/2018 1:23:10 PM "you did not elect Reagan, he was a manifestation of the times we were living in" The times were, "Our uppity kids need spanking". "and the old right wing's inability to figure out what was going on; " They figured him right into Sacramento, IIRC. Then they figured out how to move him to DC. "and it was a cultural revolution who's time had come. " Yeah; it was called the Raygun Revolution. "In the Kerr narrative," writes Cohen, "it is the FSM [Free Speech Movement] and its heirs that set in motion the political backlash that allowed Ronald Reagan to capture the California governorship by promising to 'clean up the mess in Berkeley.' According to Kerr, the FSM's significance rests less with its role in the emergence of the New Left than with its displacing his careful, effective liberalism by a reckless mass movement that inadvertently facilitated the ascendancy of the New Right."