I’ve called a number of turning points accurately. I got the end of the population explosion right, the end of the women’s movement and the end of the environmental movement.
Now it is time to call the end of the anti-war movement in America. The anti-war movement had life since the mid-1960s and some life at the beginning of the current war in Iraq. It is finally dead.
The give away was an observation by Lawrence F. Kaplan in the Oct. 10th New Republic. He said that only one in twelve demonstrators in the Washington D.C. anti-war march were 18-25. That was true here in San Francisco at the last march I saw early in 2004. Few people in the most vital age group --- that makes for a zombie movement.
I won’t miss the anti-war movement. It had no substance, merely pacifist sentiment, inherently childish and dreamlike in its fantasy views of the world.