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How the 1960s Turbulence, Free Love, Drugs, and Rock & Roll Is Related To The Guillotining French Revolution.

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Photo by   Thomas Curryer   on  Unsplash . . First published on Medium . . The French Revolution ended in death and destruction, then decades of on and off authoritarian monarchs, emperors, and others, oh my! The 1960s slid into Tricky Dick’s downfall, Swans Singing for Vietnam debacle, Disco, Ronnie Reagan, mass incarceration, welfare deformation, W’s Iraq War, and finally Traitor Donnie Trump, a boar bore. Of course, conservatives like to blame the 1960s on other occurrences and changes in society over the last five decades. That said, if we compare what the baby boomers did to what inspired the French Revolution, we can see both clearer. . Obviously, guillotines were never employed during the mid 20th century in the United States. Yet, there was a national, and more intensely, racially construed and pursued,   law and order   clamp down , during and after the riots in Watts, around passage of the civil rights acts, due to Martin Luther King’s murder, and prot...

My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 2.26

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Photo by   Sushil Nash   on  Unsplash Also posted on Medium . The greatest nation in the world leads in premature deaths. . Guns here in the United States are protected by an amendment. Healthcare in the United States protects everyone awfully darn well except for 89 million uninsured and underinsured Americans. Lack of mental health being the only direct connection between the 2 statements above. . Law and Order is a Republican trope. Which translates as mass incarceration of Black Americans. . Riots are terrible. Until you factor in liberty, freedom, and exclusively, white people. . Racism was eradicated. When we whites decided we had heard enough about it. Photo by   John Ren   on  Unsplash . Conservative christians are persecuted more today in America than anywhere else. There are fewer shopping days before Xmas, and “God damn you liberals” is considered uncouth and hostile. . It is impossible to keep up with all the different genders liberals are cre...