The last 40 years of conservative growth in power is a reaction to the 10 years called the "60's"

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3. They gloss over how close this country came to revolution in the cities

"Movement" ideology was empowering many in racial and ethnic underclasses.

The shedding of colonialism globally was expressed in this country through black power, brown power, feminist, and gay rights movements that sprouted up and asserted power and force during the late 60s.

The powers that be could in no way accept that much freedom moving that fast.

The last 40 years have sought to discredit and propagandize the real gains made during the middle part of the last century.

They've been very successful: from the vietnam "they spit on us and called us baby killers" myth to the current characterization of "hippies" as lazy, smelly, and otherwise ineffectual, the reactionaries won.