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ShazzieB

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3. Not mine.
Thu Mar 23, 2023, 08:51 PM
Mar 2023

That was 55 years ago, more than half a century, and the political climate in this country was a lot different than it is now. The Vietnam War was dragging on, and people were getting more and more pissed at President Johnson about it, especially young men of draftable age. Both Martin Luther King and Robby Kennedy were assassinated earlier that year, and people were pissed about that, too. Thousands of young people converged on Chicago to protest and give their grievances a voice. Richard J. Daly was mayor, and he made sure huge numbers of cops were on hand to meet the protesters with a shocking degree of brutality.

In short, none of the key factors that led to that debacle would apply in 2024, and there's no reason to expect a 2024 Dem convention in Chicago to be anything like 1968.

I would not be the least bit worried about a replay of 1968.

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