{"id":3411,"date":"2020-10-26T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2020-10-27T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T10:57:53","slug":"history-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/history-rhymes\/","title":{"rendered":"History Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Similarities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it\u2019s Tuesday, exactly one week before the Presidential Election of 2020.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s hard to imagine:\u00a0\u00a0four years since the last election.\u00a0\u00a0The shock and disappointment of November 2016 seems so close.\u00a0\u00a0But here we are, days away from what is clearly a pivotal moment in American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s an old Mark Twain expression: \u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, but it often rhymes\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The historic and political themes in American life come back, focused in different ways, but similar in their content.&nbsp;&nbsp;The election we face in the next few days is no different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was twelve years old in the last election that was nearly as divisive.\u00a0\u00a0In 1968 there was one trauma after another, and it wasn\u2019t much of a surprise that Nixon won.\u00a0\u00a0We suffered the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and then the debacle of the Democratic Convention in Chicago (<em>Now on Netflix \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FVb6EdKDBfU\">The Trial of the Chicago 7<\/a>)<\/em>. The eventual Democratic nominee Vice President Hubert Humphrey was a \u201cpro-war\u201d (Vietnam) Democrat and there really didn&#8217;t seem to be much difference between his policies and Nixon\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0Nixon squeaked into the White House.\u00a0\u00a0We didn\u2019t know what would happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was sitting in my seventh grade math class (second row from the window, two seats from the front) when the announcement came over the PA system. (<em>By the way, the election results were so close it took until the next day to announce the winner).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The halls of Van Buren Junior High School resounded with cheers.\u00a0\u00a0Kettering, Ohio, a Dayton suburb, was Nixon country.\u00a0\u00a0I put my head down on my desk.\u00a0\u00a0Four years seemed like an eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Secret Plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We didn\u2019t know that Nixon\u2019s \u201csecret peace plan\u201d was, in today\u2019s parlance, to \u201cdouble-down\u201d on Vietnam.&nbsp;&nbsp;Within months we were expanding the war, across borders into Laos and Cambodia.&nbsp;&nbsp;It turned out that Nixon\u2019s \u201c peace plan\u201d was to fight the war to the bitter end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It didn\u2019t work, and the war still raged four years later as the Democratic Party nominated a \u201cpeace\u201d candidate, Senator George McGovern.\u00a0\u00a0McGovern was no pacifist; he was a World War II bomber pilot.\u00a0\u00a0But the \u201cmoment\u201d where Americans were ready to end the war was over, lost in the social upheaval of the protests, civil unrest and the \u201ctune in, turn on and drop out\u201d generation.\u00a0\u00a0Nixon proclaimed his \u201cLaw and Order\u201d candidacy, and somehow painted McGovern\u2019s South Dakota pragmatism as \u201cthe radical left\u201d. Nixon won an overwhelming victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was 1972.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was now sixteen, a junior at Wyoming High School near Cincinnati.&nbsp;&nbsp;I struggled to understand how the nation could survive \u201cFour More Years\u201d of Richard Nixon.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t just about the war:&nbsp;&nbsp;it was an entire attitude. The \u201csilent majority\u201d gave license to suppress many of our citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;It seemed the nation I loved had just \u201cbeen fooled again\u201d (<em>couldn\u2019t miss the Who reference)<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it wasn\u2019t four more years.\u00a0\u00a0Nixon was gone before I left for college in the summer of 1974.\u00a0\u00a0President Gerald Ford proclaimed, \u201cOur long national nightmare is over\u201d referring to Watergate, and the last troops left Vietnam in 1975.\u00a0\u00a0But I would be a twenty-year old junior staffer for the Carter\/Mondale campaign in 1976 before I actually felt we overcame the failures of 1968, and elected Democrat Carter as President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Differences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here we are today, on the cusp of 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not 1968:&nbsp;&nbsp;there is a clear difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one can claim they are \u201cthe same\u201d in the way we looked at Nixon and Humphrey.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the reality was, Humphrey would have ended the war sooner, once he was out of the shadow of Lyndon Johnson.&nbsp;&nbsp;So there was a difference then too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it\u2019s not 1972 either.&nbsp;&nbsp;Try as he might, Donald Trump has not been able to brand Joe Biden, the moderate from Delaware, as a \u201cradical\u201d leftist.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not only do the real \u201cleftists\u201d know better, but so does the rest of the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Democrats had that choice, and Bernie wasn\u2019t nominated.&nbsp;&nbsp;Joe Biden is \u201coil on the waters\u201d (though he\u2019ll \u201ctransition away from oil\u201d), a calming force in our 2020 world of upheaval.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s what I think America wants, the Buddhist \u201cMiddle Path\u201d of American political ideology.&nbsp;&nbsp;I guess we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our War Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t just the Vietnam War that drove the 1968 election; it was the demands for social change.\u00a0\u00a0The Chicago Seven marched against Vietnam, but they echoed the tactics of the Civil Rights movement.\u00a0\u00a0Martin Luther King died protesting the need for Black people to be treated as economic as well as political equals.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not so different:\u00a0\u00a0today Black Live Matters demands that people of color be seen as equal in the eyes of law enforcement, as well as the supposedly \u201cblind folded\u201d legal process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So while COVID is our \u201cVietnam\u201d and the central issue of our time, we should not ignore all of the other issues that would be at the front were it not for the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0Our nation was divided long before the virus was introduced.\u00a0\u00a0The social and racial infections were already here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our political leaders found the courage to stand up and stop Richard Nixon in 1974.\u00a0\u00a0But today\u2019s leaders have already proven they don\u2019t have that same fortitude to stand up to Donald Trump\u2019s acknowledged illegalities.\u00a0\u00a0So it\u2019s up to us, the voters, to do what our elected leaders could not.\u00a0\u00a0We will change the course of American history next week, one way or another.\u00a0\u00a0I believe in the courage and wisdom of the American voter. For the sake of the nation, let\u2019s hope I\u2019m right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similarities So it\u2019s Tuesday, exactly one week before the Presidential Election of 2020.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s hard to imagine:\u00a0\u00a0four years since the last election.\u00a0\u00a0The shock and disappointment of November 2016 seems so close.\u00a0\u00a0But here we are, days away from what is clearly a pivotal moment in American history. There\u2019s an old Mark Twain expression: \u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/history-rhymes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History Rhymes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History Rhymes : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"History doesn&#039;t repeat: America elects a President in one week. 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