How the hell did America ever survive the 60's?

You lost Cletus, stop LARPing

It wasn't that bad, american government never had the level of opposition seen in France in 1968 for instance.

That's what saved America from being a modern "democracy" as France

Powerful intelligence agencies.

And then when you get caught by police you start shilling that you're not terrorists and shit "we wuz just practising shooting; muh heritage"

It didnt
America died with jim crow

Posts like this make the march to the sea so much more sympathetic

Aw fuck, he's back...

Hi Ron Paul

France has more voter participation than us IIRC

why wouldn't it? it's a strong country, and not one given over to impassioned mobbery

Effectively, it didn't. America before and afterward are two fundamentally different entities if you consider the long 60's (1960-~73 or so).

>survive
even if things escalated to nuclear war there was little chance of the US ceasing to exist as a polity, a few hippy protests hardly threatened its survival

France has 4 candidates, all with the same ideology...

We didn't.

After the summer of '69 we became a different country, but used the same old name. It is very confusing, even to us.

We're not who we used to be.

Most candidates are some form of moderate or social democrat, then you have batshit insane ones like Le Pen. In the US you have two parties, both of whom usually end up supporting a form of neoliberalism.

Lol, how can frogs even consider a moderated social democrat as Le Pen as extreme?

Survives the 1930s was a given.

State lines existed before that, The Wild West was settled(meaning the flyover country binds together the 2 coastal zones)
Something like the FBI had existed for quite some time by then, and it actually pushed its hand, meaning states didn't leave soly to barricade their borders and strengthening their police force.
Army has to some degree always been national, meaning there is nothing to leverage by military force. Canda and Mexico was not in interest of invading, or trying. A sea invasion was unlikely in 1930s, and even into the 1940s it proven too long of a supply line for Japan.
Eventually, effort was made, to avoid the cities falling into civil war, over paper money. If the populist effort was not made, USA would most likely have collapsed and splintered.

>America died with jim crow

Ironic you're saying this, America was politically, economically and culturally speaking two countries with jim crow

>neoliberalism
The lefties bogyman

stop replying to him, he's a baby boomer that came to /pol/ after the election.

... and now its no country, just a clusterfuck of people paying taxes to the same government. Not that disenfranchisement of a decent sectection of the population was good, but trying to fold completely different cultures into one nation is untenable without either massive commercial decadence or central control that inevitably comes to represent a third set of its own interests. Its pretty plain to see how its playing out as the relative material wealth comes back down to Earth and the expansion of "rights" begins to really stretch its limbs and expand through immigration and reclassification.

it will be fine, the 2020's have me a bit worried tho.