Somehow the people I went to coffee houses with and sang folk songs with went on to wreck the country I love and I don't know how it even happened.
I have fretted over that for years.
I think the left has adopted the strategy outlined by the
The Manchurian Candidate. Basically, those on the left are "
joining" the government to "
dismantle" the government from within (essentially a
Fifth Column). The election of Obama as President was the first wave where he promised to "
transform" the US. H. Clinton was supposed to be the "
finisher"(???), but Trump got in the way. As a consequence of the left's long-term plan being unceremoniously derailed, the "
left" detonated to "
tilt" the election (by any means possible) to get Biden elected. (I think that Obama was the actual Manchurian Candidate, Biden is simply and artificial construct that serves as the quickie convenient disposable replacement.)
There is another interesting anecdotal sociological observation between the 60s and now. I was in college in the mid to late 60s. The soldiers, in the 60s, were vilified as "
baby killers". It appears that the effort to vilify the soldiers eventually petered-out (failed). Having observed that failure, the left turned their vilification efforts (today), in an unfortunate stroke of genius, towards the police. This regretfully caught the attention of the "
mob" and inflamed them. Much of the media, foaming at the mouth, bought into that mantra and refused to discredit the lies being spewed out by the likes of Black Lives Matters (BLM).
The University of Maryland was "
late" (in the 60s) to left wing radicalization. But the seeds were there. I was a history major and the History Department was tipping its toes in going left. One of the courses I wanted to take was concerned the Civil War, that course was "
dropped". (I was able to get credit by taking an exam given by the former professor.) Another professor, instead of teaching just droned on and on concerning his activism in Civil Rights, so the Teaching Assistants had to do all the instruction.
As for not going left, I had an epiphany when I attended the play: "
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" at the University. (It was actually cheap going to college in those days and I was able to pay for it all by working at a store similar to today's 7-11.)
@Pat Hartman: The University of Maryland had a mainframe (Univac 1108) available to students, so I was able to experiment with Basic and Fortran. The Computer Science Department was not established till 1973, which was three years after I graduated. So I just missed-out.
