Polarization: Worse In The 1960s and 70s?
Recalling bitter conflicts 50 and 60 years ago on Vietnam, race, women's rights
What do you recall of the bitter conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s?
I asked my friend Bruce Johnson, a recently retired attorney if he thinks political polarization is worse now or in the 1960s and 1970s. He replied quickly: “Much worse now.”
“What seems different to me now is how widespread the antagonism is,” he writes.
“My sense of the Sixties and Seven…
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