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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 31. I have never seen sustained political resistance and opposition like this towards a president before in my life that I can remember.

[b]Is there a comparison in modern history?[/b] [/quote]

The only good answer is NO.

The people making Kent State or LBJ or Nixon or Reagan or whoever out to be as big or bigger are clueless.

This is a deeper and potentially much more serious rift in the society. You have to go back to at least the 1930s of perhaps the 1860s to get as serious a fissure, one that basically involves the most entrenched in society coming under (potentially fatal for their position) attack.

One bit of intuition: the 2008 financial crisis happened, in no small measure, because basically everyone who remembered the period from the 1929 stock/property market collapse and the Great Depression, was dead by the 2003-2008 period. This current fissure is happening because no one who remembers the elite under threat in this country, which last happened in the 1930s, is alive. For better or for worse, the Trump administration represents a challenge to many of the elite sectors in society and that is what drives the most intense opposition.
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All of downtown DC went up in flames during riots after MLK was asassinated.  Vietnam war protests begat riots and bombings in many cities. I lived then and I live now.  You're right, no comparison.  Then we hsd high school friends being killed in Vietnam or working as COs or moving to Canada. Now we have people living in echo chambers crying to eachother that they didn't win what they thought was theirs.  From the wayback machine....[b]"you can't always get what you want...."
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Today Politico has a survey of views on the inaguration speech.  51% thought it "optimistic."  49% thought it "excellent" or "good."

These are not the ratings it received in my echo chamber here in the DMV, but there it is.[/quote]
Additional lyrics from that song....

I went down to the demonstration 
To get my fair share of abuse 
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration 
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"[/quote]

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