[Serious] Redditors who lived through previous divisive periods of American history such as the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War protests: how does today's political climate in America compare to back then?

Born in the 50's. Grew up during the 60's and 70's. The 60's were real, they didn't need George Soros' (a parasite who's made billions fomenting chaos around the globe) money to organize protests, they had the Vietnam Nam war as an organizing event. The war itself was very unpopular, but the institution of the draft made it even more so. I turned 18 in 1973, and fortunately didn't have to serve (or leave the country). Today's "outrage" is unfocused and fake. They lack a single organizing principle. What IS real is what got Trump elected, an outright war on the working class in red states across America. That proved to be the unifying factor for this campaign. All Hillary could muster was a lot of phony LGBT, race and "women's issues" that lacked any traction or substance and resembled a continuation of Obama's policies which a lot of Amercan's wanted no part of. Very different times, to say the least.

My advice to the young people is that there needs to be a single unifying issue, that makes sense to a majority of the people, for any "revolution" to be successful. If "free stuff" is your organizing principle (Bernie Sanders) you don't have a chance in hell because those of us who are going to pay for your free stuff will object. When you have generations of snowflakes who are offended by everything entering the real world, your chance of finding any "real" issues is fading fast because everything bothers you. The 60's were organic, today's counter culture is wholly manufactured.

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