Demonstrators had the capacity to be deadly serious and jovial at the same time. Some of the activists, in this video, evinced a happy enthusiasm that is altogether absent today. Of course, a few days later these demonstrators were cruelly and viciously attacked, beaten, battered and bludgeoned by the miserable Chicago Police.
However, if anyone had the right to fight viciously, it was the Left and the demonstrators. Most people don't know what was so AMAZINGLY UNDEMOCRATIC about the Democratic Convention in 1968. Briefly: In the primaries, about 80 percent of the vote went to two candidates, both of whom opposed the Vietnam War: Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. However, most delegates to the convention were chosen by the party bosses with the result that more than 60 percent of the delegates supported Humphrey, who supported the war in Vietnam. For many reasons, too numerous to elucidate here, the Vietnam war was monstrously wrong. In any event, Democratic primary voters agreed that the war was wrong. But the convention spat on and overthrew the votes of many millions of primary voters. The left had every right to want to throw gasoline bombs with febrile abandon.
Demonstrators had the capacity to be deadly serious and jovial at the same time. Some of the activists, in this video, evinced a happy enthusiasm that is altogether absent today. Of course, a few days later these demonstrators were cruelly and viciously attacked, beaten, battered and bludgeoned by the miserable Chicago Police.
However, if anyone had the right to fight viciously, it was the Left and the demonstrators. Most people don't know what was so AMAZINGLY UNDEMOCRATIC about the Democratic Convention in 1968. Briefly: In the primaries, about 80 percent of the vote went to two candidates, both of whom opposed the Vietnam War: Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. However, most delegates to the convention were chosen by the party bosses with the result that more than 60 percent of the delegates supported Humphrey, who supported the war in Vietnam. For many reasons, too numerous to elucidate here, the Vietnam war was monstrously wrong. In any event, Democratic primary voters agreed that the war was wrong. But the convention spat on and overthrew the votes of many millions of primary voters. The left had every right to want to throw gasoline bombs with febrile abandon.
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