"Next to that, the clownish antics of Mr. Trump are only farce."
   Could hardly have said it better.

  But even before Vietnam, in the 1950's, the fanatical anti-communist Senator McCarthy was leading a communist witch hunt that divided Americans. And before that, after WWII, FDR's great New Deal was being dismantled by the military-industrial complex which had prosecuted the war, replacing it with a corporate takeover of government FDR warned about. That's where the US is today, many having gotten very rich supporting giant corporations, many getting poor working for them.

   But Vietnam was the big one. Sad that millions of boomers, having avidly protested everything in the 1960's to avoid the draft suddenly joined the same old racist imperialist establishment when the war was over.
  Here in Canada most fooled themselves that the Vietnam War was a mere anomaly, continuing their love of all things American as America slid down the muddy slope of fascism.