re: #127 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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This poster hits the nail on the proverbial head. Troubled as they were in many respects, the 1960s were the heyday of the prosperous middle class, made possible largely by the tax structure of the time. If you were rich, you either invested in something worthwhile or you lost it to Uncle Sam. I think there is a connection between that and daring feats of innovation and progress. We saw this not just in technology but in music and the arts.

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Naturally, the Trumpites and Reagan dupes want to disagree.

I attended college in the mid 1960s when even good private schools were relatively affordable. We were poor, not middle class, and my tuition and most of room and board were funded through a scholarship. But the 1960s were a time of turmoil— the assassination of a President, his brother, and a civil rights icon, a draft which sent millions of young Americas to fight an endless war in Vietnam, violence in the South over civil rights, the ever present fear of nuclear holocaust. Yes — it made an attempt to end Jim Crow, provide equal rights to women, gave us Medicare but it was an epoch of fear and uncertainty. It was not an idyllic era.