> I guess I never realized that in 1969 the corporate elite was to the
> left of Hubert Humphrey, maneuvering behind the scenes to push the ADA
> closer to the Socialist Party.
You're kinda falling apart here, but I'll make one last try.
The "corporate elite" is not a monolith. This shouldn't need saying, but nevertheless it does -- over and over again.
In 1969 a good many of them were worried enough to make concessions. Of course there were hard-line dead-enders too, but they were very much on the defensive, even within the ambit of elite thinking.
Neither group could have cared less about the ADA or the "Socialist Party," or given a minute's thought to "pushing" these hapless souls anywhere. The ADA and the Harringtonites were self-pushers, deeply committed to the worship of crackpot realism.
And yes, in fact there were plenty of elite types who were well to the left of the Hump in many ways. Poor Hubert was stuck defending the Kennedy/Johnson Vietnam thing, for example, at a time when elite support for that adventure was falling like house prices nowadays. Nixon was the *peace candidate*, fer Chrissake.
> > One guy literally kept a helicopter on
> > the roof of his office tower because he really believed that
> > the canaille might come surging through the door any minute.
>
> These sound like Fox News viewers avant la lettre.
No comparison at all. Fox News viewers are nearly all poor powerless ignorant shut-ins, stuck in the anal-sadistic stage of psychic evolution, enjoying a compensatory TV fantasy of tough talk and power-projection. Guys who can afford helicopters are generally a rather different breed of cat.
Matter of curiosity, SA: How old were you in 1969? I was 21.
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