When am I?

[redbird]

I was touched but not surprised by the marcher wearing a cap reading "Veteran against war in Vietnam", but the leaflets urging us to "Get clean for Dean!" were definitely a flashback moment. And I'm not that old, leaving me wondering whether whoever came up with that remembered the McCarthy campaign, or just hit on that rhyme on their own.

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[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

For a while I've been struck by how the Shrub Whitehouse is aping previous administrations. They have a Reaganite explosion of deficit, a Nixonite disregard for civil liberties. Now the opposition is also harking back to previous generations. It seems increasingly thqat we might be stuck in the plot of George RR Martin's The Armgeddon Rag, where an occult-minded leftover from the 60s wants to bring back the 'good old days' of war and protest...