How can you vote for someone who despises that which is the very thing that created this country?

Are they that ignorant of history?

The white rich kids were the ones doing the beating back then.

During the Vietnam war protests the conservatives were mostly blue-collar white men; they were the ones who were beating up the hippies, who were mostly middle-class white college students. The really rich kids didn't get involved at all because they knew they could avoid the draft in various ways, kind of like Bush did, so Vietnam was no skin off their butts. They weren't beating anybody up; they didn't have to. They were just hanging out and getting drunk at their frat houses.

That was a police riot.

I was not in the area for this horror show. It was shocking that Democrats of the era were beating up kids.

if he should become POTUS, ALL minorities, WATCH OUT!

the polls, bringing the morons out, who used to stay home .

His hero did the same thing in Germany.

Oh, argh, couldn't resist. He's not funny, at all, at all. And yet he is.

Veterans, those who fought and died and those who fought and lived, to defeat Hitler and fascism?

Sure seems like these upstanding Americans are pissing all over those who fought and died, to protect us from the likes of the fascist Trump.

Seems mighty un-American, I'd say.

Then again how many of them know anything about WWII (besides we beat the bad guys) is debatable. I know that sounds absurd, but we are talking about republicans that only operate on emotion.

Some probably would say yes.

TheRump-lickers think "political correctness" is Liberal fascism because it prevents them from being vulgar and misogynistic and racist (which they don't recognize as misogyny and racism). They see themselves as heroes defending 'real' American freedoms, and "in the know", more informed than ignorant socialists, libruhls, and commies.

It's a warped view, but it is hermetic (sealed in) because Right-Wing Authoritarian followers do not seek contradictory info and ignore it when they stumble on it. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7680127

your comment on "political correctness" made me think of Paul Monette: "All you have to do to be politically correct is don't be an asshole."

While dodging the draft himself

For the most part, the protestors against Trump have been peaceful, it's the Trump goons that are the rioters.
(And no, I'm not excusing the Ohio National Guard either.)

Like that old racist jackass who sucker-punched a Trump protestor who was being peaceful.

Trump is getting the support of the Nixonian "silent majority," the low-class jerks who will resort to fists, knives, clubs and guns.
They want to "Make America great again," that is, back to the good old days when white men ruled the roost, "the little woman" and them non-uppity n****** "knew their place."

When punks could beat up "dem queers" with impunity.

When calling someone a "communist" could ruin their lives.

Even in that case, they are only a plurality

Just like the 80's "Moral Majority."

Tiny minorities that made a big stink to look bigger than they actually are.

Last year this (as Trump would say it,) "YUUUUGGGEEE" rally was promoted like hell, of "ex-gays."

About 7 or 8 showed up.

Don't forget the infamous photo from here of the "pro-war majority."

No, there were no riots at Kent State on May 4, 1970. There had been disturbances downtown over the weekend, mainly when the local police closed the bars, and a wooden ROTC building was burned, but on May 4 there was a large demonstration, met by a National Guard that had been urged to "get tough." I say this as someone who grew up in Kent, Ohio, and who was a high school student at the university lab school then. As my mother said at the time, "I was in San Francisco on V-J Day. I know what a riot looks like, and that was no riot."

I appreciate those who do not let others rewrite history!

exactly how "discriminating" the Ohio National Guard decided to be when they made the choice to open fire.

I was a young person back then and I've never forgotten it. It was heartbreaking.

For Clinton. Bernie is more likely to beat Trump.

We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio!

Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
What if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Donald Trump is a despicable human being. He shows every indication of wanting to usher in a fascist era in this nation, and must, must, must be opposed at every step by anyone with a conscience.

HOW CAN YOU RUN WHEN YOU KNOW??????????????????????????

"This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio."

My hands are shaking a bit as I type these words...

...over a handy tree limb. The Good Old Days.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/birmingham-erupted-chaos-1963-battle-civil-rights-exploded-south-article-1.1071793

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign

That photo is heartbreaking. I lived through that era and it was scary and painful. I don't think we should propel this thinking into the political atmosphere with this kind of hurtful visual.

There's nothing new here that they haven't already thought of.

"visual" isn't what caused the the pain. It was from the fascists who decided their bullets were more important than our right to protest.

Better would be to acknowledge it and keep it from happening again. Else the real estate swindler might fool someone.

one of the teachers commented, "They got less than they deserved."

Talk about jerking me full-fledged into the small but vocal--and I think, thanks to teabaggers, growing--group of liberals who stand profoundly against while being constantly astounded by the whole right-wing rot threatening to overtake the country, just as it has the government of Brownbackistan.

Sadly, although the Kochs and their ilk realize what their philosophies will do, the people who vote republican do not. They should look at Kansas!!!!

I was a student at the time, and an anti-war organizer. My poor hard-of-hearing mother said when she reached me in a panic, "I knew you weren't one of the killed or they would have called. Were you shot?"

" Oh, Mom," I said, "That just happened at KENT State; I go to PENN State - with a P!"

Bonus Army 1932: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Burfman....

I never heard or read about this.