(A guest column, superb insights and craft. /wr)
In 1968, Nixon was elected on a Law and Order platform. He was going to save the nation from pot smoking, hippies swimming naked, sex without a missionary commitment, and wimpy people wanting peace before he’d won the Vietnam war and brought peace with his “I’ll tell you after you elect me,” secret plan.
Baby boomers weren’t voting but their parents were voting out of raging fear that had been stoked since 1964 when a toothpaste company had the audacity to run ads aimed at budding boomers exclaiming it would give a whiter, sexier smile.
So, today pot is becoming no big deal, swimming naked in your home pool, naturist resort, or designated beaches is no big deal, hippies are passé, no one gives a fig about winning a war, and everyone wants peace.
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The GOP’s latest round of fear-mongering is also fading. Who is going to support a movement where fanatics write laws requiring a fetus to incubate in a corpse? Gay marriage is working without signs of ending our species.
In the mean time, why isn’t the GOP striving to keep us safe from the Koch brothers’ clandestine plans to create a fascist, pure, America based on what their father, a John Birch Society founder, taught them? Why isn’t the GOP stoked to keep us safe from lunatics’ ready access to assault weapons and high-capacity magazines? Why isn’t the GOP offering workable, detailed plans to grow living-wage jobs and widespread prosperity?
Maybe they hope we’ll stay distracted with sex, smoke and vaginal probe threats.
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