Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> On 4/9/07, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yoshie wrote:
> > >the ruling class, especially the US ruling class, never do
> > >what middling sorts think are "good for the system" on their own.
> >
> > They got rid of Nixon.
>
> Americans were much more militant in the streets back then than they
> are now. The ruling class are feeling no such pressures from the
> lower orders in the USA today. All quiet on the home front.
I believe Doug has quoted Martha Graham as saying (of the Post's part in that) -- "Never Again." And to add to Yoshie's point, the ruling class _had_ been spooked by the '60s. It didn't feel from 'inside' that we were all that much a threat, but apparently some v.i.p.s were very determined to calm the waters. And between the slump of '74* and the "see the system works" of Watergate, calmed they were. (*An economic hit of that magnitude fragments and individualizes working people.)
Carrol
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