Everything in life is cyclical. Things go in and out of style, in and out of favor. So do people, so do organizations, so do governments. Unfortunately for the latter, there's rarely a chance were they can resume where they left off.
A common mistake people make is believing that the problem beings when the dip or rise from the present track occurs. However in actuality it begins when the slope of the line changes.
Though things are not doing bad at the turning point, they are doing less well. Therefore, when one does not turn a condition around, it is partially their fault for not being perceptive enough.
Now it is easy to see that bad conditions come out of good with no clear line dividing them (in most cases). Many times, one does not realize that things have gone bad until much after they began to. Likewise, the 1960's or 1970's, or any other decade does not begin on January 1st. It begins in the actions and movements that begin well before the ball drops and continue well after the next one does. It is only that the decade, or year, or era is defined as this because it was a prevalent theme throughout it.
With all that said, I'd like to say what I want to say.
Anyone who is optimistic about a certain trend is on the forefront of it's growth and anyone who is pessimistic about a trend is on the tail-end of a previous growth. You have Abolitionists and anti-Abolitionists, Whigs and Tories, Henry VIII and the Pope, VCR's and DVD players, Conservatives and Liberals, and so forth.
If you haven't guessed, I'm going to pick on Conservatives and Liberals. Conservatives by definition are people who like things they way they are or the way they used to be (reactionaries). Liberals are people who question present norms and push the barrier into new thought; some do it drastically (revolutionaries).
Now for my opinion. There have never been in the history of the world a conservative or reactionary who was widely respected. None. No one cares about someone who wants things to remain the way they are. They just aren't important in the context of history. William the Conquerer, Charlemagne, Constantine, Julius Caesar, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., etc. All of them had one thing in common. They all changed things, defied norms. All are remembered. Few know who Constantine's predecessor was; he didn't change anything. William the Conquerer's father didn't conquer nearly as much; he isn't remembered. The KKK members who protested the civil rights movement are not remembered. They are shunned with the likes of Hitler or Stalin. Martin Luther King Jr. is praised and revered.
In the end, everything is moving towards change and historically, a majority of change has been in the forward, liberal, direction. Otherwise, we'd never have left the Stone Age, the sun would revolve around the Earth, and an invisible man that lives in the sky will forever be watching over us, watching every little thing we do, even when we jerk off. Fun thought isn't it.
Of course, there are those who would argue that I'm twisting the truth, that I'm being partisan (no shit), that I'm being unpatriotic by not conforming. Shame on you. The 1960's stand out as the epitome of rebellion against a norm. And guess what... It'll happen again. Sooner than you'd like too. And we'll win again. Just you wait and see. Our numbers are growing, our base strengthening, and there's nothing you can do about it. Everything is cyclical and the slope on your negative curve is lessening. Soon you'll see. Liberalism will rule again. And you won't even see it coming because it never left. The next fifty years are going to be fun, at least for us. Liberty, the root of liberalism, will fly free forever.
The tide is turning
As a new day dawns.
What was once yours
Will soon be gone.
It is time for the world to change
And that change is dire.
Like clockwork we come
Granting free speech, expression, and desire.
For all people of all races
Regardless of education, color, or creed,
We are uniters under a common thread,
Destroyers of your inhumanizing greed.
United we stand,
Divided you will fall.
Gone is the oppression of your rule.
A sexual liberation is upon us all.
Down cast is the Church,
It's numbers, how they've dwindled,
A new day is dawning,
It's fires have already kindled.
One of peace, love, and liberty.
Just as it was, shall it ever be.
Equality.
From sea to shining sea.
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