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In reply to the discussion: Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]hedgehog
(36,286 posts)2. For me, it's more like the frustration of the Carter years -
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Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]
kentuck
Jul 2013
OP
Feels more like the twilight years of the USSR, slowly the conditions getting harsher
Katashi_itto
Jul 2013
#33
To say nothing about the secret off-budget programs. How many billions there? We'll never know.
AAO
Jul 2013
#94
Can we have a Great Society without war and surveillance? Seems like the Dem leadership want both.
Erose999
Jul 2013
#21
In a perfect world, yes.But I'll take imperfect Dems over Repubs any day. n/t
displacedtexan
Jul 2013
#24
It's interesting that in the first Presidential election that 18-20-year-olds
Art_from_Ark
Jul 2013
#116
Well, if we complain too loudly about our Constitutional rights being stripped away...
Maedhros
Jul 2013
#81
We can count our "friends" in the house and senate lately on one hand. And still have fingers left.
Erose999
Jul 2013
#20
My friend...some of the things I have been hearing in the back country
nadinbrzezinski
Jul 2013
#111
No, not at all. Then there were two things we do not have now, Unity and Unifiers.
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#35
in the 60's a couple of kids with minimum wage jobs could have shared a flat in the village
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#41
I agree. Plus the viscious clampdown on dissent from the prig Woodrow Wilson. Seems
byeya
Jul 2013
#65
Not at all. If people march for voting rights it will. LGBTs stood strong and changed America.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#95
I was there. I agree, more mid than late. Just warming up the engines still.
bemildred
Jul 2013
#125
Nope, in fact just the opposite. Back then they actually talked to each other face to face
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#127