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When US troops returned from Viet Nam and the Civil Rights Act was passed, the people went back to sleep. Foreign policy remained as corrupt as ever, and it would lay down the groundwork of future US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Politicians still fratranized with the influence peddlers sent by big business, and they would get the pay-off eventually as Reagan and Bush Jr. cut their taxes at the expense of social programs, and the war profiteers still made money in the wars that occured since then. Black people still don't have as many opportunities as White people, and poor people are further behind than they have been in a long time. Just talk to the Katrina victims to know.
Why did all of this happen? People didn't finish the fight like it should have been finished.
"Hey, I could go all the way and take the fight to the corporatists and truly change the country, but I've won enough, and I'm tired. I'm going home and tuning into television."
I have a very bad feeling people will do the same thing again, fight half-assed and then go home without finishing off the enemy for all time and leave future generations to deal with the consequences.
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