(January 17, 2016 at 11:22 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 10:55 am)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: Prior to Nixon, almost nobody was voting with their brains. Do you think JFK would win today with "Ask not what your country can do for you..."? How about the "I like Ike!" campaign? A couple of decades before that, the women didn't vote. Oh, and these populations were all vastly more religious than people have been since Nixon, and vastly more ignorant in general. So if the country has been sliding down the shitter, maybe it isn't that people waste their votes, but that they are so disillusioned with the thugs and ass clowns who are on the ballot that they don't want to vote at all.
Thump mentioned the JFK inaugural speech before I got to it.
I'll just stick to asking you to (1) clarify what you meant in the bolded part and (2) substantiate that claim.
Nixon was there at the height of a major social transition which began with the JFK assasination, followed up very closely by assassinations of other public figures, including MLK. This time of disillusionment was coming-of-age time for the huge Baby Boomer generation, which rebelled against the establishment with sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. The Hippie movement grew out of the social shift from accepted rule of authority in the 50's to modern individualist culture. People were experimenting a lot, and those who survived that came out wiser. The Boomers led the anti-war demonstrations, and more people became aware that wars which cost millions of lives may not be necessary. They were doing this while Nixon was in office. Yes, I think this all justifies my saying that people became smarter after this, even while so many withdrew from society upon their disillusionment.
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