08-16-2021, 01:12 PM
(08-16-2021, 12:54 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Unfortunate side effect of being such a partisan/politically divided country. You want to claim all the good things for your side and deflect all the bad things for your side and vice versa. I don't know if it was always like this or how we got this way, but God I hope the next generation isn't so viscerally divided.
I wouldn't bet on it...but I don't think this is all that new either. I'm pretty sure the media and the notion that the younger generation was fully of overly liberal wimps was blamed for the USA failing to secure a quick and easy victory in Vietnam, too. Plus everyone then was a deep state secret commie and "sentiment against the war" was the single greatest threat to the country itself, and so on and so forth.
Plus, Nixon was no more for de-Vietnamization than McGovern, but LBJ and democrats had been so bootstrapped to Vietnam that we needed to retreat back to a republican who couldn't beat JFK in order to get out of the war successfully, because you couldn't trust another democrat to do it. That seemed like pure party nonsense over actually facts, too.
Technology has changed the way we get the spin and sow the seeds of discontent and mistrust, but people is still people in the end.