1968: The Year the System Lost Its Grip, Part 2

[Luis Gonzalez]

1968: The Year the System Lost Its Grip, Part 2
Three Cities. One rupture. And a system that can’t hold its own story together anymore.

The Last Wire

By 1968, the official narrative is no longer stable. It’s competing with reality in real time.

New York is dealing with internal political and cultural fragmentation that no longer behaves like normal “unrest.”

Saigon is the exposed edge of a war that no longer matches the optimism sold to the American public.

Washington is where credibility itself starts to break down, as institutions lose control of the story they are trying to enforce.

This isn’t random disorder. It’s synchronized stress across multiple pressure points.

When New York, Saigon, and Washington all begin failing in different ways at the same time, you’re not looking at isolated crises anymore.

You’re looking at a system losing its grip.

And 1968 is where that becomes visible.

Read Part 2 at The Last Wire

[Hoodat]

Think of how different our world would have turned out if Barry Goldwater had been elected President four years earlier.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Think of how different our world would have turned out if Barry Goldwater had been elected President four years earlier.

Seriously.

[Bigun]

1968 is but a blur in my memory bank. When it ended, I was a 21-year-old husband and the father of a brand-new baby girl. I was still in the Army at Fort Hood Texas and kind of busy.

[Bigun]

Seriously.

Very seriously! @Luis Gonzalez

[dfwgator]

Think of how different our world would have turned out if Barry Goldwater had been elected President four years earlier.

Let's assume RFK survives and gets the Democratic Party nomination and defeats Nixon.

I think the one thing it may have done is saved the Democratic Party from going radical.   RFK's death removed the barrier for the radicals to start their takeover.

[Bigun]

Let's assume RFK survives and gets the Democratic Party nomination and defeats Nixon.

I think the one thing it may have done is saved the Democratic Party from going radical.   RFK's death removed the barrier for the radicals to start their takeover.

Let's assume Barry Goldwater defeats LBJ in 1964.

1. The war in Vietnam would have been over before June of 1965 with us on the winning side.

2. There would have been no "Great Society" programs.

3. There would be little to no national debt.

4. (add your own) I could continue but will refrain.