>It's dia-fucking-lectical, man. Upsurge->Dems. Dems->disappointment.
>Disappointment->more upsurge. Then it's time for a Republican recession.
From a review of Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties by W. J. Rorabaugh:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Kennedy+and+the+Promise+of+the+Sixties.-a0113898420
"Yet because his successors in the presidency continued and expanded his opposition to the communist threat in Vietnam, it was ultimately Kennedy's concurrence in the extension of the Cold War to Southeast Asia that set the stage for the domestic upheavals that came later. Rorabaugh correctly argues that the turmoil of the late sixties was rooted in a reaction against the mainstream conservatism of post-World War II America. But it was the prolonged conflict in Vietnam that furnished the specific catalyst for that turmoil. The antiwar movement became a funnel through which a wealth of pent-up discontents were expressed."