{"id":83895,"date":"2022-11-17T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83895"},"modified":"2022-11-17T06:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:16:25","slug":"deja-vu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83895","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reading this piece by John Phelan at the Center of the American Experiment about the rise and fall of Hubert Humphrey,<\/a> it\u2019s a little bit amazing how little, in someways, has changed over the past 60 years: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re not going to let the political philosophy of the DFL be dictated from the Kremlin,\u201d Humphrey said. \u201cYou can be a liberal without being a Communist, and you can be a progressive without being a communist sympathizer, and we\u2019re a liberal progressive party out here. We\u2019re not going to let this left-wing communist ideology be the prevailing force because the people of this state won\u2019t accept it, and what\u2019s more, it\u2019s wrong.\u201d His Republican opponent in Minnesota\u2019s 1948 senate race had voted against the Marshall Plan for European aid, and Humphrey charged that \u201cif American policy had been decided by the vote of the senior Senator from Minnesota, we might be negotiating with the Russians now in London instead of Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Especially regarding the behavior of the left\u2019s vanguard elite (emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever the motivation, Humphrey was now in the front line of an increasingly bitter civil war in the Democratic Party. Many young activists, drawn into politics and the party by the struggle for civil rights, were bitterly opposed to the Vietnam war. Known as the New Left, as distinct from the old left of Rauh\u2019s coalition, their opposition escalated along with the war. Wherever Humphrey went, he was met with abuse from anti-war protestors. At Stanford in March 1967, for example, demonstrators mobbed his car screaming, \u201cWar criminal!\u201d \u201cMurderer!\u201d and \u201cBurn, Baby, Burn!\u201d Several tried to break through the police cordon, and a can of urine was thrown over one of Humphrey\u2019s Secret Service men<\/strong>. Humphrey had little affinity for the student radicals. Recalling his time as a student at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s, he said, \u201cI didn\u2019t have much time to join a protest movement, I was concerned about being able to earn enough to eat.\u201d He compared the protestors\u2019 \u201cfoul language and physical violence\u201d to \u201cHitler youth breaking up meetings in Germany.\u201d<\/strong> In 1966, referring to his battle with the DFL Communists, he told reporters \u201cI fought those bastards then and I\u2019m going to fight them now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Of course, that was at a time when \u201cthe greatest generation\u201c were still in their prime working years, and the degenerate radical left was a relatively new abscess. Today\u2019s \u201cnew, new left\u201c is the children, grandchildren and indoctrinees of the hippies Humphrey was talking about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading this piece by John Phelan at the Center of the American Experiment about the rise and fall of Hubert Humphrey, it\u2019s a little bit amazing how little, in someways, has changed over the past 60 years: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to let the political philosophy of the DFL be dictated from the Kremlin,\u201d Humphrey said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,320,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-history-and-its-making","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83895\/revisions\/83896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}