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Taking a Side<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In our current \u201cA.D.D.\u201d, twenty-four hour news cycle age, this story is already out of date.   Joe Biden\u2019s decision to drop out of the Presidential race is truly old news (was it really only last week?).  We are now onto Harris versus Trump, a whole new \u201cvibe\u201d for the 2024 Presidential election.  But, before we eulogize the still alive and kicking Biden into the oblivion of \u201clame duckness\u201d, there is one issue we still need to deal explore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plenty of comparisons between our present era and 1968.\u00a0\u00a0They are the two times in my lifetime when America seemed totally divided by insurmountable differences.\u00a0\u00a0In American history, the term \u201ccomplete polarization\u201d is often applied to three eras:\u00a0\u00a01860, 1968, and today in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not a coincidence that all three were Presidential election years.\u00a0\u00a0The ballot decision crystallizes the extreme choice for voters.\u00a0They were\/are forced to take a side:\u00a0\u00a0for or against slavery and secession; for or against the Vietnam War, or for or against authoritarian leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1860 Lincoln was elected with a minority of the popular vote (less than 40%) and on a platform to restrict slavery to the states that already allowed it.\u00a0\u00a0Between the November election and the March inauguration, seven states seceded from the union.\u00a0\u00a0Secessionist Edmund Ruffin fired a shell at Ft. Sumter on April 10th<\/sup>: the Civil War began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But 1968 isn\u2019t quite as clear.\u00a0\u00a0For many today, that year wasn\u2019t taught as \u201chistory\u201d. It was current events, subject to all of the emotion and \u201cskin in the game\u201d analysis without an historic perspective. So here is the “1968 story\u201d, hidden in the \u201cweeds\u201d of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson ascended to the Presidency with the assassination of John Kennedy. Johnson in many ways was the diametric opposite of Kennedy.  He was a coarse Texan versus the erudite New England Kennedy, and a master of legislative politics versus Kennedy\u2019s mastery of media image.  He could have been the perfect balance for the President, but instead, the Kennedy\u2019s shoved him to the side once the 1960 election was over.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Johnson took office he kept Kennedy\u2019s \u201cBest and Brightest\u201d cabinet.\u00a0\u00a0He used Kennedy\u2019s death to pass civil and voting rights legislation, something that Kennedy himself wasn\u2019t able to do.\u00a0\u00a0Johnson went on to have one of the greatest \u201clegislative\u201d Presidencies in history, second only to Franklin Roosevelt (and now maybe Joe Biden).\u00a0\u00a0But he also maintained Kennedy\u2019s growing intervention into the Vietnam War, expanding American forces to almost half a million troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, passing civil rights legislation did not bring racial social equality.\u00a0\u00a0Black Americans were frustrated to the point that there were summer riots:\u00a0\u00a0from Watts in Los Angeles to Detroit to even smaller towns like Cincinnati and Tampa.\u00a0\u00a0In 1967, there were more than 150 urban riots. At the same time, there was a growing movement against the Vietnam War.\u00a0\u00a0American troops were supplied by a universal draft, but the draft was \u201cslanted\u201d, allowing some with more education or financial resources to remain out of the military.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting Clean<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The US military was unable to show \u201cprogress\u201d on the ground in Vietnam.  Like the more recent war in Afghanistan,  US forces had to \u201ctake\u201d the same territory over and over again.  The metric of success became the \u201cbody count\u201d; subject to falsification, and unending.  Many American students demonstrated, and college campuses were rocked by violence against the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democratic Party split, with some legislators calling for an end to the American involvement.\u00a0(The Republican Party was \u201call in\u201d for the Vietnam War). Additionally, the Southern faction of the Party were incensed over Johnson\u2019s civil rights successes. In the spring of 1968, Senator Gene McCarthy of Minnesota ran as an \u201cinsurgent\u201d for the Presidency against Johnson in the New Hampshire primary.\u00a0\u00a0His campaign staff had many college students, who cut their hair and gave up \u201cHippie-ness\u201d to make a better impression on voters:\u00a0\u00a0they \u201cgot clean for Gene\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It also included many of President Kennedy supporters who felt that Johnson betrayed their leader\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assassin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Johnson won the New Hampshire primary, but by less than 50%.\u00a0\u00a0The strength of McCarthy\u2019s movement pushed Senator Robert Kennedy, the President’s younger brother, who was also against the war. He entered the race, splitting the anti-war vote between the two Senators.\u00a0\u00a0Johnson recognized that he was unlikely to win the nomination of his own Party for a second full term, and even if he did, would be fatally damaged in the general election.\u00a0\u00a0So he withdrew, encouraging his Vice President, the former Senator from Minnesota Hubert Humphrey, to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ugly three-way race ensued, with some anti-war voters jumping to Kennedy, and some bitter that he didn\u2019t get in the race sooner.\u00a0\u00a0Humphrey was unable to do much more than echo Johnson\u2019s pro-war views.\u00a0\u00a0Through the last primary in California the race was close, but Kennedy won and seemed to have momentum going into the convention .\u00a0\u00a0But an assassin intervened, killing Kennedy immediately after his victory speech in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That left the convention in Chicago to Humphrey.\u00a0\u00a0Anti-war protestors, denied what looked like a sure convention win, marched in protest.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, used the police to not only control demonstrations, put to punish protestors with beatings, arrests, and tear gassing. And all of that action was \u201clive and in color\u201d, televised to the American public. It was a convention in total disarray, and left the nominee, Humphrey, with little hope of winning the election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the November count was still very close.\u00a0\u00a0Republican Richard Nixon won by less than one percent of the vote.\u00a0\u00a0Humphrey was hamstrung by the third party candidacy of George Wallace in the south, that gained almost 13% of what normally would have been Democratic votes.\u00a0\u00a0And many \u201canti-war\u201d Americans had no one to vote for at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

America was splintered.\u00a0\u00a0The War in Vietnam would continue for six more years.\u00a0\u00a0Even the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City (held in October) didn\u2019t unite the country. Some Black athletes used the medal ceremony as a moment to silently protest. Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised black gloved fists in salute during the national anthem.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They were immediately removed from the US Team and sent home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The one event that pulled the country together was on Christmas Eve, when Apollo VIII orbited the moon.\u00a0\u00a0They showed the world what Earth looked like from a moon orbit for the first time.\u00a0\u00a0Astronauts Lovell, Anders and\u00a0\u00a0Borman read from the Bible\u2019s book of Genesis as earth \u201crose\u201d above the lunar landscape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nealy a billion people on earth watched, and it captivated the nation.\u00a0\u00a0Seven months later, Apollo XI actually landed on the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The similarities of Biden with Johnson are apparent.   Biden was a successful legislator, made Vice President to a master of media presence, Barack Obama.  However, Obama used Biden to help achieve his legislative goals.  And Biden became President in a crisis situation like Johnson, after the first Insurrection to overturn a Presidential election.  Biden was able to use his legislative prowess to pass a number of legislative plans to improve America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t a war that stopped Biden from running for a second term, it was his age.\u00a0\u00a0As the oldest President to ever serve, his physical appearance and actions made it difficult for voters to visualize him at the end of his second term, at eighty-six.\u00a0\u00a0And his performance in a June debate against Trump confirmed what folks instinctively knew; Biden is old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Biden, like Johnson, withdrew.  But he didn\u2019t saddle his successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, with an unsuccessful war.  The Democratic Party quickly (two days!!!) rallied around Harris as the new candidate for President.  The Democratic Convention in two weeks will be a coronation of her as candidate, not a divisive morass punctuated with clouds of tear gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris taking the mantle doesn\u2019t change the existential consequences of a Trump victory in November.  Those that Trump would bring to power have made it clear that they want to change the essential fairness of the American experiment.  (Look at the current Supreme Court majority, or the Heritage Foundation\u2019s plan for the second Trump administration, Project 2025, to see that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not 1968.  Let\u2019s hope it\u2019s not 1860 either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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