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Tabs may be referring to simply growing up. I mean, as you mature you find out that the fairy tales are not true, Richard Nixon was a crook, we defoliated Vietnam cause we could, etc. However, there is a common thread in what we have today in the USA.
My particular view of the coming of age that came to my generation happened at Kent State, when Nixon's soldiers cut us down. Before that it was an acid mary jane revolution, with a few really getting upset about the whole Vietnam thing. Kent State really did it for me and many others, and it followed the whole hippie/yippie thing in Chicago in the summer of 68. Anyway, a few years later Kent State happened. There was a riot that went on for a while, and lots of minor damage occured. It happened after an invasion of Cambodia that a lot of us thought crossed a line. Anyway, the national guard shot 4 students to death. This was it. The end of the line. The total end of innocence. The real hard core liberals/radicals got id cards that day. The birth of the US left common movement. To this day, the same group exists, and it is mostly middle/upper middle class white/jewish.
There is a reason for all this. I think this it one of them. There is no putting it back together for them, it will always be war with the establishment. This is deep stuff, that will only die with the real left. Can it be passed on? Maybe, but true hated is hard to keep going forever. Just my humble opinion of course.
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