Am only a tad regretful that I paid so little attention—amidst those seminal undertows of naked political hard-ons—in those days.

I settled for ~”the game IS rigged”, in lieu of the hard slog to find a literate riposte to the standard troglodytes. There were more delicious matters to attend. But I well recall that McGovern was indeed [“..a better man and a better candidate than these Republican ‘irregulars’”] and my S.O. + a friend had met McGovern and pronounced him, credible/copacetic (and W.T.F. Happened there!?)

Glad that Longman did not elide that qualifier in some final edit. (Likely too IMO, McG may well have been too bright to get past the egghead shibboleth adopted by that huge tribe of mouth-breathers who come up with the likes of a Quayle, not to mention Wasilliana fauna.)

J. Martindale (way down the replies) demurs

The failure of this essay to attribute the rabid, fascistic element of current Republican politics to the racism generated by two terms of of a Black President also makes me wonder if the equations of the ’70s to today are valid. But what you say is definitely worth thinking about, and you have given us a lot to consider. Thanks.

I think he has a point.

Great Hastur! (and Cthulhu as goes without..) Eleven MONTHS more of malevolent hate-speech masquerading as ‘political dialogue’, with ‘Econ’-by-Rush and [re-animated] Dead-End Kids from the ’40s
..polishing the rhetoric. And shall we, INDEED need to have a fresh copy of Götterdammerung? (an analog LP for real Class)
Because when it comes to Rings, I wot that on election night (--or week? for the recounts) Ring of the Nibelungs er, trumps.. that recent tale with Mordor and such.
[Cue up: Cheney-as-Smeagol, My Precious then, as encore.]