...Have we now come "full-circle"??
a Note for "Millenials" who are eligible to vote
I cast my first vote for President of the United States, in 1960. I was 21, that year, and the choices were between Kennedy/Johnson, and Nixon/Lodge. 21-yr-old citizens, and older, were eligible to vote in 1960. Today, 18-yr-old-and older citizens are eligible. As I was, in 1960, anxious about my career opportunities; I'm sure those citizens born after 1998 are even more anxious. I thought my decision was difficult, but today, those first-voters worried about their futures are, perhaps, terrified ; given their choices!
Less than 3-years later, I was a young Air Force Lieutenant, assigned to the NSA in the Washington area. Kennedy was our President. The Bay of Pigs, and Fidel Castro, in the embrace of the Russians, were twin "gifts" left for him, by the Eisenhower/Nixon Administration. The Cold War was red-hot! One year after successfully defeating the Russian advance into Cuba, with a hair-raising blockade of War-Ships, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas! Also inherited from Eisenhower were our entanglements in the Vietnam War, and Civil Rights conflicts over the Integration of Schools.
JFK's assassination set in motion Lyndon Johnson' decision to advance Civil Rights for Negroes, as a tribute to the Legacy of our slain President.
Then began the 53-year, tragic slog of events that have led us back to DALLAS! All of the hope of those early JFK years (Camelot), have redounded to the despair we face, after the Republican Party, led by Nixon, chose to put our Nation on the Road to Racial Backlash, and steadily-mounting tensions between Whites and Blacks. Pressed harder to the Political Right on Race issues, by Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, and Bill Clinton, we've come full-circle!
Stay Vigilant! Every event that, we thought we could Overcome, was compounded by more terrible events; until the GOP has managed to work its way to a Racially-Polarized Nation, and TRUMP as their Candidate for 2016! The world we live in today does NOT make us safer, more prosperous, or more confident than we were in1960! Millenials must VOTE, as if their Lives, as well as their FUTURE depend on the outcome of our coming Election!
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