I didn't say she had a chance - that's the problem if you take that path you end up supporting genocidal maniacs on the grounds that they might be better than Trump! Principle always come first!
and nothing ever changes. Look where Biden's got them - very predictably I should say, he's just strengthened Trumped and given him a way back in...
Not if you want to win elections. And if you don't win......
Biden's failure has only given Trump a way back in. You don't stop fascism by giving up principle, look what happened in France in the build up to the war - Blum ended up in a concentration camp himself for his failure...
Corbyn was defeated, which is why we are creeping towards fascism again. Labour will be in power soon, but that power is built on a mandate to take us further to the right. A mandate from Labour supporters
Every generation has good people, I'll grant you that. But remember Thatcher was all-for apartheid and cosied to dictators despite the efforts of many. As for Vietnam, was it really ended by flower-power or exhaustion and pragmatism?
They also brought us peak deforestation, organophosphate-assisted industrialised agriculture (with associated loss of biodiversity), fast food, disposable plastic everything, landfill to get rid of it all, waste and more waste. They behaved as if the planet had infinite resources and they were wilfully ignorant of the obvious consequences. And yes, many are now sitting on their arses on gold plated occupational pensions in houses they paid a few thousand for, having benefited from free university tuition and occupational training, pontificating about how today's 20s to 40s are feckless and lack the motivation to get out of debt. So many of the kids in their 20s I know have well north of £50k student debt and zero prospect of ever retiring let-alone owning their own homes. And thanks in large part to boomers, their ability to live, study and work in Europe is severely curtailed. The young of today are left with the unenviable task of cleaning up after them.
And at school. I was also born in '48, and our year at school was the first one to challenge the system, not just accepting the status quo. Also afterwards, breaking out from the old acceptance of employment, political and cultural norms.
Margaret Thatcher was born in 1925! I think you have muddled up your generations. And counter culture wasn't all flower power, try the Black Panthers for a start.
True enough. And, yes!
And the Baader-Meinhof Group in West Germany! Not very flower power either.