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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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- RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The counterculture was very small. Almost no one was a hippie just like very few people were punk
  
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  - fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That makes sense. The counterculture also wasn’t one unified thing.
    
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