February 26, 2013 – The 1960s scared conservatives worse than I knew – worse than a lot of us knew, I guess. Certainly I lived through that period. Certainly young adults found their voices, and had the nerve to object to being put through the meat grinder called Vietnam. Black Americans continued to seek justice and equality in their adopted homeland. Change was inevitable. It’s understandable that conservatives wanted a say in what those changes would be. Their fearful reaction was – and is - badly overblown. Others’ happiness is nothing to fear. These longed-for changes cost conservatives nothing but their unearned, self-satisfied atrophy. Young people went on dying, even so. It turns out all of that change scared the socks off market fundamentalists. Determined to return the country to its previous perceived state of inertia, Lewis Powell wrote a memorandum for the US Chamber of Commerce, urging a sh...
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