How ironic that Democrats in 2024 are again set to hold the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
For I fear a repeat of 1968.
Nearly six decades ago, delegates were gathered inside the International Amphitheatre in the Windy City to nominate Hubert Humphrey for president, but outside it was chaos.
Ten thousand anti-Vietnam war demonstrators were met by more than two thousand police and National Guardsman.
I remember watching it all as a 23-year-old, fresh out of the Marine Corps. The war was as real as it could get for me.
Tear gas was fired into the crowds. Officers indiscriminately beat protesters. Hundreds were sent to the hospital and even more were injured.
Television cameras captured it all – communicating to Americans at home that the disorder that they feared was worse than it seemed.
I’m not predicting that Chicago’s streets will again erupt into violence, but if tensions in the Democratic party continue to build over the ongoing Israel-Gaza war – the discontented are going to seek an outlet value. And their numbers may be overwhelming.
In the Michigan Democratic primary, 100,000 voters cast a ballot for ‘uncommitted’ instead of President Joe Biden. And along with Arab American communities in Dearborn and Hamtramck and college students in Ann Arbor, Michigan, black voters are upset over the carnage in Gaza.
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Author: Joseph Curl
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