“Selma Envy” is indeed a remarkably accurate and concise description and explanation of the forces at work in left/liberal politics, pretty much since the original event. Those, like our possible/probable next president, who insist that “trans” rights are the civil rights issue of our time have no idea of how absurd, even insane, they look to those who lived in the world to which the Selma march was a challenge, and who have kept their feet on the ground since then.

in my early version of white guilt became a small financier of the Black Panther breakfast program. I did this until I discovered the two of my contacts were heroin dealers and one was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon.

Another example of Black Panther malfeasance is the death of Betty Van Patter. David Horowitz hired her to do bookkeeping for the Black Panthers. She discovered some irregularities in their books, and asked to talk to some Black Panther honchos. Soon after, Betty Van Patter disappeared, and a month later her mutilated body is discovered in the East Bay. No one has ever been charged for the murder, but investigations and logic point the fingers at the Panthers.

David Horowitz and Betty Van Patter’s daughter certainly consider the Panthers responsible. The murder of Betty Van Patter prompted David Horowitz to leave the left.

60s nostalgia… the SDS honcho, in a conversation on the campus quad, said that Lenin should be a required part of the college curriculum. The manner in which she gushed “Lenin” indicated that she placed Lenin on a par with Shakespeare or Plato. Fortunately, she never took the Weatherperson route. She has been a tax-and-spend Democrat state legislator for 2 decades.

A stint in the service used to be a rite of passage. People were forgiving of a guy’s juvenile hijinks because the service “made a man of him.”

The Civil Rights movement, and its climactic moments at Selma or the March on Washington 1963, was a national peak experience, when the people on the “right side of history” were indisputably right. I was eleven years old when I first heard Peter, Paul and Mary sing “Blowin’ in the Wind” and I knew Something Important Had Happened.

But after you’ve had a peak experience — it’s so good — the classic mistake is to want to get back there. Maybe even if you didn’t have it, but just read about it or watched a film or documentary, you want to get that again.

The story of the Left and much of America since 1963 IMO is “Selma Envy.” Envy because most of us, even in the 60s, weren’t there, but we wanted to be.

The saintly song of the civil-rights movement grew even more rapturous as we grew old enough for our American history teachers to pop a tape in the VCR and show us the gruesome images of the era. Look, children! Look at this sneering face of Southern hatred! Look at these enemies of progress holding the firehoses! These were not human beings corrupted by their circumstances and giving in to the vilest impulses that lurk in the hearts of all men. No, these were demons, evil embodied in human flesh. Look again, children! Look at the faces of these saints who used non-violent protests to fight for equality and change legislation. These are the faces of the morally superior, the holy ones who marched on Selma, those who were more enlightened, more compassionate, more loving than anyone else who had ever lived because they defended the mistreated and defeated discrimination when no one else would.

https://thefederalist.com/2015/03/31/gay-marriage-isnt-about-justice-its-about-selma-envy/

I still have fond feelings for the good things of the sixties and seventies, which I can separate from the era’s mistakes. Given that no era is perfect, that seems a healthy response.

Jahaziel Maqqebet: I get it.

However, may I recommend the Evernote Web Clipper which is available as a plugin for most browsers (except Bravo, grr…).

Its main use is to boil down web pages to pure text and straight images, which you can read and save. It also functions as a handy ad blocker. Plus it will cut through many, though not all, paywalls. Hee-hee.

Evernote is my secret web weapon and it works on Epoch Times.

I recall the 60s; 10th grade in High School. 1971. Everybody knows the 60s really only ended in 1973 with the Paris Peace Accords, right?
Or was it July 3, 1971, when Jim Morrison died?

I argued in favor of Universal Military Conscription.
For Equality.
Of opportunity, and meritocracy.

These reasons I still believe, but Freedom is more important, so I don’t support conscription of anybody — but an offer of the Navy (or Army) or Jail remains fair.
Now I support a voluntary Job Guarantee.

I was young then; now I’m old. Young is better; hopeful, future, healthy, able to leap between buildings and usually make it but also recover from small problems and even broken bones without “permanent damage”.

I’ve never done bungee jumping, and now I never will.

The 60s started so many revolutions, which continue now. The post WW II “world order”, dominated by America, Human Rights (imperfect), Capitalism (imperfect), and Christianity (imperfect and losing out, legally, to much less perfect atheism).

Too late to go back! What if the 50s were the height of civilized cultural norms?

The world, and America, will regret losing “American” Boy Scout values.

“You’re gonna run to the rock for rescue, there will be no rock….
You’re just robbing and a stabbing and a looting and a shooting,
no you’re too bad.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrHuLa7y1E