I have an oped on that subject (coauthored with my undergrad classmate Jim Bendat) on CNN.com. Here are the opening paragraphs:
On a warm August night in 1968, the two of us joined thousands of other young people in front of Chicago's Hilton Hotel, braving tear gas and billy clubs to demand an end to the Vietnam War. While delegates to the Democratic Convention remained sheltered inside, with police and National Guard troops protecting the entrances, we shouted "Bring the Troops Home" and "The Whole World is Watching."
We didn't realize it at the time, but our most consequential chant was "Dump the Hump," derisively aimed at Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had until then refused to distance himself from the war policies of President Lyndon Johnson. We wanted to change how the government worked -- and it turned out that we did, although far from the way that we wanted.
You can read the whole column here.
The only candidate who can save the USA is Trump. If he cannot, we are finished.
Posted by: Trump2016 | May 24, 2016 at 12:53 PM
It was your generation that ushered in Ronald Deficit Reagan and during your years of highest earnings demanded huge tax cuts and the drowning of government in a bathtub. "Government is the problem." So, my generation is stuck with an ineffective, neutered government that can't generate revenue when needed, sky high deficits, and massive student loan debt. Highways are deteriorating, bridges collapse and we don't have health care for all. It all started with your generation and Reagan. You lost that idealism in 1980.
Posted by: Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King | May 24, 2016 at 02:03 PM
Reagan was the greatest President since post ww2.
Posted by: Trump2016 | May 24, 2016 at 02:41 PM
Mr. Trump2016,
Reagan was very effective at responding to Professor Lubet's Yuppie Generation and their quest to cut government down, ship jobs overseas unduly focusing on cost cutting and amassing outsized inequitable personal wealth. ("Greed is Good.") Their generation has a comfortable retirement with savings, pensions, Medicaid and Social Security. My generation is stuck in an uncertain Walmart World. Reagan served Lubet's generation and YOU very well. It all depends on perspective.
Posted by: Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King | May 24, 2016 at 04:10 PM
Times have changed in that in 1968 conventions still mattered. Now they are multi-day infomercials, there are always protest outside and no one really cares about the protests.
It is unfortunate that my candidate, Bernie, is not going to be nominated, but I think it is fair to say he lost a fairly close race in the primaries or is going to lose them shortly. A couple of months from now, people will start forgetting about Bernie, as they already have forgotten about Cruz, and look at what choices remain. It is going to be Clinton vs. Trump. Realistically, this is going to be a Clinton landslide - not so much because she is a great candidate but because he is a terrible one, and the demographics are starting to favor the Dems in the larger turnout elections of Presidential years, and because, quite frankly, most people are reasonably happy with the way Obama is doing things at this point. Bernie would have won the general, too. Generations from now, people studying history will be wondering how the Republicans could ever have nominated such an awful candidate.
Posted by: Nah | May 24, 2016 at 07:42 PM
Don't believe the hype, nah, the American people are not going to vote in droves for Ms Hillary. You have to understand the great anger and spirit of the large majority.
Posted by: Trump2016 | May 25, 2016 at 12:46 AM
I understand anger from a lot of people. Not sure why their anger would lead them to vote for a rich guy like Trump, though.
Posted by: Nah | May 25, 2016 at 06:17 AM
Nah,
Perhaps if we didn't follow Reagan's path....we wouldn't have such anger. He didn't lead, he mislead and manipulated. Reagan cut my Pell Grants completely out. When my dad was laid off from his manufacturing job, I recall a speech Ronnie gave from the Oval Office when he hoisted up a newspaper Help Wanted section and pointed to the "numerous" openings. He called my dad a "liar." Then he fired ALL of the Air Traffic Controllers. He had contempt for working people and it was now open season on the middle classes....
Posted by: Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King | May 25, 2016 at 10:00 AM
The Republic is failing. We need a dictator.
Posted by: T14 editor in chief | May 25, 2016 at 11:07 AM
A benevolent dictator. I nominate Queen Elsa of Arendelle.
Posted by: Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King | May 25, 2016 at 01:51 PM
Thanks, Steve. You helped get Nixon elected in 1968.
Posted by: TuringTest | May 26, 2016 at 01:32 PM
Nixon, now more than ever.
Posted by: Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King | May 26, 2016 at 03:18 PM