To many on the left, the 1960s were the glory days of their movements, and for some the days of their youth as well. They have a heavy emotional investment and ego investment in the ideas, aspirations and policies of the 1960s.
It might never occur to many of them to check their beliefs against some hard facts about what actually happened after their ideas and policies were put into effect.
It certainly would not be pleasant to admit, even to yourself, that after promising progress toward "social justice," what you actually delivered was a retrogression toward barbarism.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/07/a_legacy_of_cliches_127267.html
It might never occur to many of them to check their beliefs against some hard facts about what actually happened after their ideas and policies were put into effect.
It certainly would not be pleasant to admit, even to yourself, that after promising progress toward "social justice," what you actually delivered was a retrogression toward barbarism.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/07/a_legacy_of_cliches_127267.html
