Just perhaps, the country and its people are finally moving beyond the backwash of those turbulent times. We were so hopeful -- and some people were so angry. Sometimes the hopeful and the angry were the same people.
These days majorities of us seem to want more racial justice, more gender justice, and a government that serves all the people, weakest first. That's what many of us wanted back then. And we scared the bejesus out of the powerful. Much repression and grinding suppression ensued, as well as uneven gains for human freedom that felt sporadic and always tenuous.
Supposing we fight off outright fascism and keep the planet habitable, might we find our way to a less contested commonwealth? Now there's a nice old-fashioned word and concept? I like it. Nothing to do but keep on keepin' on.
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Seems like progressive positive movements of the 60s have taken a giant step back into the Middle Ages.
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