Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
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advocating for different causes will eventually share this opposition to Vietnam.
And next thing you know, they start coordinating their activities in conjunction with the Vietnam anti-war movement.
And so domestically, politics reach a level of contention that, in a way, America has rarely seen since the Civil War.
Yeah.
And that's the thing, right?
I mean, he's this reluctant Cold Warrior.
He wants to do the Great Society, right?
He talks about it as his great lady.
But then he has to deal with what he called that bitch of a war, right, which eventually derails everything.
And I think, you know, again, right, as much as we think that we're polarized today, man, Don, like, and again, right, I mean, what you mentioned, in the 60s, it's not just yelling and screaming at each other.
We're killing each other.
I mean, you know, these domestic homegrown terrorist organizations emerge, right, the weather underground, and they start blowing stuff up.
I mean, that's how contentious it
I look at my university, right?
All this stuff is happening in the world and everyone is so passive, right?
People are talking about, but they're not doing anything.
In the 60s, on the other
Especially later in the war.
If you're 19 years old, 18 years old, and you're a man, you better pay attention because if the war doesn't end, you're going to end up in Vietnam.
So at first, you've got the deferments if you're in college, but then we do away with this.
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