re: What is your assessment of the 1960’s?

Great looking cars..

Communists and Nazi socialists had infiltrated the government and media through the 1940’s. Many if the Nazis were a part of Truman’s post-war government, and both Truman and Roosevelt had strong socialist ties. Truman created the CIA and Majestic 12, a governing council that would operate at a level of secrecy above the President of the United States. This group would infiltrate the media through Operation Mockingbird (also created by Truman) installing socialist CIA agents in charge of all major media and propaganda outlets while ensuring that future presidents would have zero oversight if they even knew of their existence. Hoover at the FBI served as a gestapo agent for this faction.

When McCarthy failed in his attempts to both expose and expel the totalitarian socialist cancer that was manifesting itself, the socialists emerged and went mainstream. Kennedy attempted to stop them by shrinking the power of the fed and attempting to dismantle the CIA, but instead, they shot him dead. His successor, LBJ was all too happy to push their agenda. LBJ created the modern welfare state while also creating the conditions for the runaway immigration that would fundamentally transform this nation. Through the draft, conservative males were purposefully targeted and put on the front lines to be killed while the war further justified the agit-prop at home. The Civil Rights movement was used to justify massive power grabs by the federal government, and the sexual revolution was used to destroy the pillars of civilization: religion and the nuclear family.

From then on, we have marched ever forward towards totalitarian, pan-national communism. While some presidents have attempted to slow this movement to some extent, none have done more than lip service to actually reversing course.

The 60’s were the tipping point when the culture war was lost.

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Should have elected Goldwater in ‘64

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Goldwater's loss would create the movement that eventually led to Reagan in 1980.

Even more significant, McGovern's loss in 1972 would lead to the radical left taking over from the old farmer-labor coalition, giving us the Dem party of Identity Politics we have today.

Was the decade of decline and fraught with intended and unintended consequences.

We the People continue to shoulder the burden of the 60s for some four plus decades and that generation cannot exit the stage soon enough.

assassinations
a war we shouldn’t have been in
civil uprising
Hendrix

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The oppressive structure that enforced a class hierarchy of white male dominance and those subservient to this class.

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kinda long winded way to say "the nuclear family"

I’d trace that back more to Humphrey losing in 68.

McGovern was the radical left’s first big attempt to run a candidacy and it was an embarrassment. In hindsight, the plumbers shouldn’t have bothered digging through the DNC offices looking for proof they hired hookers because they didn’t need Nixon’s help to collapse.

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it seems to me like many of the social problems we have today grew from that decade.

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True. But remember most of that mess was happening on the coasts or in big cities. There are still lots of boomers alive today who detested that hippie nonsense.

Early 60s? Good. Peak USA. 1950s with a little bit of the repressive edge gone. Good feelings, don't need a buzzcut. Social cohesion. A little looser and more carefree, but still holding onto good old fashioned values. Not yet batshit crazy.

Late 60s? Full on Civil Rights is a great thing. Wacky hippy stuff seemed Kinda fun at times, but then the batshit crazy comes in there at the end.
Late 60s hurt more than helped.