While I agree in theory, a cautionary tale. Two, actually:
I. Before I was old enough to vote, School teacher turned US Senator Lyndon Johnson ran against Air Force General turned US Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson was the Peace candidate, Goldwater was the hawk. Johnson turned out to be the guy who go us mired in Vietnam and couldn't get us out.
II. I joined the US Peace Corps because Nixon was re-elected. I wanted to be out of the country. I voted for Jimmy Carter from the US Embassy in Bangkok, partly because his mother had been one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, and I expected Carter to expand the peace side of US foreign policy the way Kennedy would have done. Boy, was that a disaster.
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I. Before I was old enough to vote, School teacher turned US Senator Lyndon Johnson ran against Air Force General turned US Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson was the Peace candidate, Goldwater was the hawk. Johnson turned out to be the guy who go us mired in Vietnam and couldn't get us out.
II. I joined the US Peace Corps because Nixon was re-elected. I wanted to be out of the country. I voted for Jimmy Carter from the US Embassy in Bangkok, partly because his mother had been one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, and I expected Carter to expand the peace side of US foreign policy the way Kennedy would have done. Boy, was that a disaster.