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In reply to the discussion: To the older folks at DU from a 20-year-old, about protests, confusion, and love for one another [View all]Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)I say that even though I was drafted during those dark days and was forced to spend two years in the Army during that God awful war. Unlike many of my friends, I got lucky with an assignment in the States.
The Democratic Party was much stronger back in those days. Organized labor was much stronger and made up almost 30% of the work force. There were not 30,000 corporate lobbyists in Washington controlling our economy. There was no Fox News along with over 1,000 AM/FM hate talk radio stations pumping out lies and propaganda. The Fairness Doctrine was still in effect back then. If you wanted to get all the executives together that controlled 95% of the media back then, you needed a large living room. Today, all you need is a bathroom that can hold 6 people.
That is just a small sample. Others here can list many, many more reasons its worse today.