Hating War In Vietnam In 1965 Was

I Was A Kid And I Studied When I Had To [live].

I Found The Place Where I Was Beaten Bloody Forty Years Earlier And Dragged To Jail And That Made Me Cry. When The Family Came Out, That Made Me Cry, And The Reason I Had A Hard Time Leaving Grant Park Was That To See A Million People Like That, Feeling The Way That Million People Felt, Was So Exhilarating.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

When I Was Arrested Opposing The War In Vietnam In 1965, As I Said About 20 Or 30% Of People Were Opposed To The War. By 1968, More Than Half Of Americans Were Opposed To The War. If You Pull In Europeans, Canadians, People From Around The Third World, The War Was Vastly Unpopular. But Even Half Of Americans By 1968 Opposed The War.

I See [lyndon] Johnson As The War In Vietnam, And The Invasion Of The Dominican Republic And So On. So I'm Not A Liberal In That Sense, Because I Think Of Liberals As Part Of That Establishment.