No, you can’t blame foreign policy and wars on 3 year olds, 12 and 20 year olds.
I meant the 9.4 million boomers that served in the military.
The under 30 vote of 1972 while we were at war in Vietnam and the draft was going on, when they voted 52% republican and 46% democrat.
The under 30 age group was the most supportive of the Vietnam war, of all the age groups.
Who said I was blaming the war on the BB’s?
I didn’t have a problem with the war then or now. Parents were hard line Birchers and Arizona Republicans, it’s a foregone conclusion for us!
But far more of them then you may admit were parroting ridiculous crap about the ultimate aims of the Communists EVERYWHERE and willfully ignoring their past.
As far as the ‘72 election, I was in college in a conservative state that year and I can tell you that McGovern was a popular guy on campus. Never heard anyone admit they were for Dick.
There’s no doubt that the war had major support up until 1970, and after that...tapering off. Was it just a small, noisy minority that scared Kissinger and Nixon into negotiating a way out?
Could be. But they certainly did make a LOT of noise if so...and changed the whole country in the process.
But Kissinger and others would not have negotiated that if they thought the country was behind them. Maybe they didn’t see your poll numbers.