To the increasingly tedious MikeS: practically all the radicals drifted away from their radical activities and organizations and joined more conventional activities and organizations.

Indeed. They entered the Academy and ruined it, turning it into an indoctrination center. They entered the Democratic party and turned it into the Socialist party. They entered the media and turned it into a fifth column. They entered Hollywood and turned it into a center for anti-American propaganda. And on and on.

These activities are, indeed, all “legal” (at least if the opposition party is too cowardly to charge anyone with sedition), but they are corrosive and destructive, far worse, in the end, then setting off bombs.

Your attempt to excuse the acidic activities of Ayers and Kerry and their ilk by blandly noting “They got carried away and made a lot of mistakes” results from precisely the kind of moral lassitude they’ve programmed into you.

I might also note that while Ayers hasn’t been setting off any physical bombs, of late, he has not changed a lick in his political views, and given half a chance would have most of the posters on this forum tossed into the Gulag. Kerry is simply an imbecile who nevertheless knew which way the wind was blowing and rode it into a career as a do-nothing politician. And no doubt he got plenty of girls after his “heroic” protest.

Yeah, heroic. It is indeed “heroic” to take up a position that you know full well will get you fetted and praised by all the “beautiful people” of your era. It’s like a “brave” Hollywood actress revealing she’s a Lesbian. How heroic! After all, it takes an intrepid soul to suffer through all the unctuous media praise that results.