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I was there too -- and you definitely have a point. Remember, though, that the civil rights movement was also in the process of giving up on peaceful protest and changing hearts and minds, and had, by this point, hatched the Black Panthers, who weren't spoiled rich kids but were every bit as unbalanced, hysterical, and violent as the Weather Underground were. And remember that the burned-out Johnson administration had been replaced by Nixon, who was blatantly cynical, mendacious, divisive and paranoid. It was a time of widespread disillusion and despair.
