Some recent critiques levied at DSA's organizational strategies peddle in an aesthetic-radicalism that risks distracting the working-class from organizing itself into a disciplined political force.
Lack of a draft and the sanitization of reporting are enormous factors by themselves. Another enormous factor is that even at the height of the Iraq War (and we're well past that now) we didn't have nearly as many American deaths as Vietnam.
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You could build a mass movement around opposition to a Vietnam-type war, but we're not fighting one of those now.
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Lack of a draft and the sanitization of reporting are enormous factors by themselves. Another enormous factor is that even at the height of the Iraq War (and we're well past that now) we didn't have nearly as many American deaths as Vietnam.