You are absolutely correct. If it is better or worse is just perspective. Today though we are very fractionated and turning on each other. I thought it all could come apart during the previous election cycle when the two extremist groups fighting in Portland were shooting paintball guns at each other. It would not have taken much to set if off for real. It is definitely closer than we want to believe.
In the 60’s the common belief was it was just the youth wanting a change and there was no need to worry about the unrest until older people were protesting. Today it is not so much the youth but the older people protesting.
I would hope we do not come apart. I have warned my children that they do not ever want that to happen. Sometimes I think we just lack an external villain to keep us focused like after Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Outside of Calif & NY, the only "older people" involved in the current unrest are generational lifelong Dem's. It's ALL they know dating back to their great, great, grand dad. It's no coincidence that both Reagan and Trump were previously registered Dem's. They brought those life long blue collar/union member Dem's with them.
