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Old 08-21-2007, 08:16 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fmdog44 View Post
I have asked this before so here goes again, why were so many out in the streets in the 60's and 70's and today no one shows up. How have we changed as a culture? Too busy checking emails?
I think it's the other way around. It took a long time and a lot of casualties in Vietnam for anyone to hit the streets, and in the beginning it was primarily college students.

The Iraq War, on the other hand, was the most protested war in documented history (not sure if that's per capita though!). Bush, the most protested man. The reaction to the Iraq War was pretty unprecedented in that there were countless people not only in the US but worldwide protesting it before it happened. That just never really happened before.

Protests haven't gone down, it's just that media coverage of protests have gone down.
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