"Fun Was Actually Becoming Quite Subversive" (Molly Hite)

[Richard Romeo]

Bayard Rustin comes to mind

Rich



> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> So who are some mythic figures of change or inspiration for you? 
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>> On Mar 31, 2016, at 1:46 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> an undermining of our inherited ways of looking at WW2 and thus of many other issues
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>> Very much so, in my case. My WWII Marine parents were too temperamentally skeptical and contrarian to be "gung ho" about either WWII or the Cold War, but I still grew up more or less within the mainstream, triumphal consensus: "Our Great Democracy saved the world in the Good War." The civil-rights movement, Dr. Strangelove, Viet Nam, Nixon -- and yeah, sex&drugs&rock&roll -- took off the shine and opened some cracks, as did steady reading of modern history. But GR came in like a barrage from a dozen unexpected angles, screaming, unstoppable, hilarious, and opened the cracks into chasms that no amount of "It's morning in America!" <tm Ronald Reagan and Hal Riney> would ever close. .   
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>> true for many of us here, but not for the country as a whole, or its culture. Reagan the myth continues to have resonance, for example--nothing on the left comes close. why is that?  
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