This Is Why We Have A Dickhead In The White House

"The 1960's were over, and for all the noise and strong points protesters had made during that extraordinary decade, the sense remained that an opportunity to forge fundamental change had been missed, that the American government was as unresponsive and autocratic as ever, that America remained divided as ever by inequalities of race and class. The great rebellion had fallen short. The hippies were moving on, taking jobs and moving to the suburbs. They would pull out their dirty old t-shirts and bell-bottomed jeans to attend Dylan concerts, but the next morning they would dress again in suits and ties and head to their office jobs downtown. Their strident songs and dances hadn't quite done the job."

From "Ali: A Life", by Jonathan Eig

I have been saying this for decades but this paragraph says it better than I ever did.

My generation rose up as one, threw a spotlight on all the injustices and corruption in this country, and tried to make a change. There will never again be a movement like that in this country. It was a one shot deal.

You can blame us for getting sidetracked by drugs and sex (not a bad way to get sidetracked), and that is true to some extent. But the real force, the true, overwhelming reason behind this failure was and is the power wielded by the government, corporations, and the wealthy.

They saw an uprising that threatened to upset their lifestyle, that threatened to wrestle control away from them and give it to the people, where it truly belongs. And they fought back with everything they had. Money, power, corruption, violence, lies. You know, the weapons they use every day to keep us in our place.

Hope resurfaced briefly in 2008 and 2012 when Barack Obama was elected and re-elected to the presidency.

What, a black man?

But if you paid attention, right after he was elected the first time around, you noticed people lynching him in effigy all around the country. Those assholes exposed this country openly and honestly for what it is.

A vicious, racist, violent country. A country founded on bloodshed, torture, slavery, lies, corruption and a massive imbalance between the haves and the have-nots.

trump and the cretins who support him are the ultimate result of this horrible karma.

My generation mistakenly thought we could win that fight in the sixties. We never had a chance.

And no one ever will.