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Protesters were to be kept away from the Ampitheater and delegates inside the venue found even their movements were restricted.
All of this dominated local TV news. We had been mostly excited but partly afraid. By the time the convention opened, we were mostly angry and definitely afraid.
A group of us gathered again in Lincoln Park. Another was in the Civic Center Plaza. The speakers became steadily angrier, increasingly calling for a fight.
Our Dem mayor, Richard J Daley, was not loved by the left to begin with. He took machine politics to a new and more corrupt place. Thousands had come to town to protest the war, but Daley, who controlled the city, was afraid of the Yippies and was *not* having any of us god damn hippies causing trouble.
More than 10,000 city cops and thousands of Illinois National Guard troops put the city virtually under siege.
Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention
The tension in the city was palpable. It excited some and scared the hell out of others. We all knew someone(s) who had died in 'Nam. We would later see the devastation of PTSD in our friends/family who came back seemingly okay.
There had been regular largish Sunday gatherings in Lincoln Park. Called love-ins, be-ins, sit-ins, whatever, the anger and excitement built week on week.
And then the Democrats came to town.
Yes. Sort of. I see the places and, as much as I can, my actions in them.
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Columnist highlights 'funniest part' of Trump's North Carolina economic speech
Funniest part of Trump's big 'economy speech' today was that he kept reminding himself aloud that he was supposed to be talking about the economy, but then immediately returned to rambling about tampons or San Francisco crime or whatever," wrote Rampell,
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Our cats have always been indoor cats. At one time I was the manager of a vet clinic and I saw the outdoor cats when they were brought in.
The details of what these poor creatures had suffered were the stuff of nightmares.
I don't lecture people who choose to let cats roam and I appreciate not being urged to do so myself
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Voter apathy among Dems has been a problem for many, many years now. People just don't care enough about voting down-ballot. Flip the Senate. Flip the House. Flip the GOP Governors and Statehouses. Vote for Harris. There's your revolution.
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In the ancient times the people of Israel smeared blood on their lintels to tell the Angel of death to Passover their home.
Iโm considering smearing ketchup on mine so the Devil of Dumbass passes me over.
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Good point. That's encouraging.
And in that slurring! I was cringing and laughing at the same time