In my hometown of Philadelphia an aged Paul Simon’s uninspired rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Water brings memories of 1972. I listened to Simon and Garfunkel a lot in the early 70s, and sang their songs when bicycling\u00a0through New England and in Europe. In 1972 McGovern presented such hope, such a marked alternative to\u00a0a criminal\u00a0Nixon. I wrote lines\u00a0from Peace Like a River in magic marker on my bedroom ceiling:<\/p>\n
You can beat us with wires
\nYou can beat us with chains
\nYou can run out your rules
\nBut you know you can\u2019t outrun the history train<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To me these words were a promise of life after Nixon, beyond Vietnam, the invasions of Cambodia, Laos. McGovern promised sanity, decency after the\u00a0sordid thuggishness\u00a0of Nixon, Agnew, Kissinger, Thi\u1ec7u. Now in 2016 to succeed Obama’s drone and JSOC assassinations I am presented with the alternatives of Trump’s loud-mouthed authoritarian\u00a0nightmare or Clinton’s hawkish neocon capital servitude. Darkness comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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