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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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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.
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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 protests up until the war ended. At least some of it instigated by F.B.I. Director, J. Edgar Hoover, our mini-Robespierre. On the other hand, the French had a clear shift in their governance, and as unethical and ruthless as Nixon was to portions of his fellow citizens, he was no Napoleon, who left a half million of his soldiers to…
