The Reality-Based Community?Here's a
fun article on the decline of the antiwar movement in Florida.
But their numbers have thinned and, for some, so has their enthusiasm.
Alfredo Tamburrino, 67, Fort Lauderdale, no longer takes to the streets. "I just sort of gave up," he said. "Once the war started, there was nothing really that could be done."
A major blow, activists and experts said, was President Bush's re-election in November. "To lead up to this war, we saw the greatest anti-war movement in history. What really hurt the anti-war movement was the Kerry campaign and the run for president," said Sarah Steiner, co-chairwoman of the Palm Beach County and Florida Green parties.
"Truthfully, we're very, very disheartened at the [Bush] re-election," said Jim Worl, 82, a Fort Lauderdale World War II Army vet. "There was a great letdown, a great letdown."
Professor Stephen Zunes, chairman of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, compared the '04 election to the 1968 victory for Richard Nixon, which temporarily sidelined the anti-Vietnam War movement.Yes, but in this case, the killer has been the same thing that killed the anti-Vietnam War movement; the end of the war.
