Reply #26: the Chicago riots section was especially poor [View All]

[KurtNYC]

and much of the piece separated cause from effect and instead used the likes of Pat Buchanon to spin away the push for real democracy that was 1968.

A far better documentary is "Berkley in the Sixties" which makes a great case for the 1950s being the prime root of all the civil rights and anti-Vietnam crusades of the 1960s. Kids were told how great America was supposed to be in the 1950s so in the 1960s they tried to make the country live up to its ideals. And they used the tools of democracy to do so.