Charlottesville (Blogophilia 25.10)
What a field-day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and carrying signs Mostly say, hooray for our side -Stephen Stills 1966 I didn’t think I would live to see history repeat itself, but here we are. In 1968, we had the Chicago Democratic Convention riots, where the protestors (my older brothers and sisters) exerting their disgust over perceived corruption of the democratic process, meeting a shielded blue line designed, hopefully, to protect those in power. Over time, those in power proved they did indeed have clay feet and fell to the scorn of all. This past weekend we had the next generation of those protestors come up against the latest iteration of the White Power movement, who ironically are angry over what THEY perceive is the corruption of the democratic process. One had a temper like the other’s jealousy , producing confrontation as Thesis met Antithesis and reacted. One decided to go to war, taking twenty or so ca...