Reply #14: The vile nature of the republicans would have still oozed out. [View All]

Viet Nam was not as much a divider as was the Civil Rights movement..The convergence of those two issues, is what set into motion, the policies we have today..

The group of angry white men who had to be dragged, kicking and screaming into an integrated world, are still with us, but they are just meaner and richer now..

Viet Nam and Civil rights were both issues that young people felt in their bones..

The upheaval on the 60's was about a younger generation rebelling against the phony sociewty they saw around them.. This was a society that said that the water in two fountains was different, even though it came through the same pipe...that the people at the front of the bus were "better" than the ones at the back, even though they arrived at the same place at the same time, and they paid the same fare...

Viet Nam had not been "cooking" for very long, before the young people saw that if you were middle class or poor, and you happened to be male 18-23, you had a long nasty trip ahead of you...but if your Daddy was a big shot or your family had money, you did not have to go..

The 60's were about inequality..plain and simple...

Without Viet Nam, we would have still had "issues"..

Civil Rights & Viet Nam...Both were violent, and both are still with us today....