The true parallel with 2012 may well be 1968

1968 is 2012 in these ways
1 Nixon faced a close election challenging an incumbent and said he would fix things and chose a hatchet man for Veep named Spiro Agnew Making allowances for Nixon's greater political intelligence you have Romney-Ryan
2 Despite a boatload of progress the Democrats were nearly crushed by the weight of two 1968 assassinations King and RFK Obama is not Hubert Humphrey but he faces a dispirited electorate inclined to sit on its hands
3. Nixon and hatchet-man won and both were ultimately hounded out of office for various acts of criminality Democrats faced decades of attempted readjustment and unconscionable willingness to feed at the same trough as Republicans did We had no glimmer of reform and progress until Obama
4 The result of our rejection of Humphrey by our lassitude was to strengthen a right wing that is now so toxic that even a gulllible electorate may this year begin to notice  If this noticing does not take place we face exactly the situation that existed following Nixon's victory That was 44 years ago A lot of society has crumbled since then
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