I had the honor of meeting some old school Communists, folks who had gone to Spain to fight Franco and been blacklisted. They told us that they’d tried to warn people to vote against Nixon in 1968, but the younger folks thought that Nixon and Humphrey were equally bad.
The funny thing is, a lot of people didn’t vote for Carter because he wasn’t perfect.
They wanted him to do more about South Africa, but his hands were tied because the US military needed South African chromium.
Instead of backing the better candidate, some people thought that letting a GOP blowhard like Reagan come in would somehow push people to the Left.
Sound familiar?
And the consequences reverberate for generations…
I had the honor of meeting some old school Communists, folks who had gone to Spain to fight Franco and been blacklisted. They told us that they’d tried to warn people to vote against Nixon in 1968, but the younger folks thought that Nixon and Humphrey were equally bad.
It seems like an unending cycle.
That must have been back when communists would still do anything besides virtue signal on the internet