{"id":31741,"date":"2020-07-30T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31741"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:38:54","slug":"protest-3-my-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31741","title":{"rendered":"Protest #3 My Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken this title from Draft evader Donald Trump&#8217;s infamous claim that his &#8220;Vietnam&#8221; was avoiding STD&#8217;s in the 1970&#8217;s. At least he wore <a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2019\/01\/donald-trump-conan-condom-joke-walk-off-set\/\">prophylactics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a college kid I took the War in Vietnam seriously and I was intrigued <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2020\/07\/25\/21292_remembering_the_minnesota_eight\">to read a story<\/a> in the most recent Duluth Reader about my era&#8217;s war protesters which began when I was still in high school and continued through my college years. To my surprise they mentioned a protester that I&#8217;ve once described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora04\/corncob.htm\">in one of my old Reader Columns<\/a>, Brian Wells. If you read it I will not something I didn&#8217;t mention in the story. I suspect his had serious mental problems. I don&#8217;t mean that as an excuse just something to remember as you read my dismissive attitude about his virtuous protest.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the only time I&#8217;ve written about My Vietnam. I wrote a column about <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/01\/31\/15881_nixonites_then_and_now\">my defense of Richard Nixon<\/a> in a college debate also in the Reader. And then there was <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23121\">this post from 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first of at least three quick posts about the subject of protest. Thanks to Donald Trump they could become deadly. Having started Charlie Manson&#8217;s race war, much desired by alt righters it might give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-53597975\">Trump an in on postponing or undermining an election<\/a> which could removed him from the Oval Office. If that happened it will be China&#8217;s adage for America: &#8220;It is a curse to live in interesting times&#8221; squared and possibly time for real Tea Partiers not the pantywaists who showed up to take over Congress because Barack Obama was elected President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken this title from Draft evader Donald Trump&#8217;s infamous claim that his &#8220;Vietnam&#8221; was avoiding STD&#8217;s in the 1970&#8217;s. At least he wore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31745,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions\/31745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}