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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 days agoThe Vietnam War draft was very unpopular and that War coincided with MLK’s push for equal rights. There were a lot of vocal protests. Also, you had the hippies and ‘Woodstock Nation.’ Those weren’t overtly political, but they were counterculture, which the Right took as an attack on them and their values.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The counterculture was very small. Nixon’s approval ratings were high throughout the 1960s and only take a dive when we find out about Watergate. The fact is America was never particularly left leaning.
statista.com/…/us-president-approval-richard-nixo…
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Absolutely. Also, a lot of people who were slightly left of center snapped right back after Kent State shootings showed them which side had the guns.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
The counterculture was the first wave of America becoming left and it was brutally supressed in the Reagan counterrevolution. We’re arguably more left per capita today but it’s entirety extraparlimentary
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The counterculture was very small. Almost no one was a hippie just like very few people were punk
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
That makes sense. The counterculture also wasn’t one unified thing.