Activists and witnesses of the civil rights and anti-war movements say they're alarmed by the direction the country is taking again. 'A lot of my friends … feel that we are reliving the past,' says Valda Harris Montgomery, 74.
Dan Balz, 76, reporter for 44 years at The Washington Post. He covered the 1968 Democratic National Convention as a cub reporter for an Illinois newspaper, and is now writing about the political aftermath of the Jan. 6 MAGA riot at the U.S. Capitol.
"In the '60s there were three broadcast networks. We all watched them. They gave a kind of common view of the world that people shared. People accepted facts as facts. You could disagree about what those facts meant and what kind of policies they should produce, but you didn't disagree with the facts.
"Fast forward to the environment we're in today. It's fundamentally different. The internet democratized the flow of information, and that's a good thing. ... But at the same time, we're all in our own silos of where we get the information we want. People seek out information that reinforces their view of the world rather than challenges it. That makes it easier for disinformation to flow, for conspiracy theorists to thrive ... and, as we saw on Jan.
"In many ways you could understand what was happening in the '60s. ... It's harder to understand that today when you see people believing and accepting things that are just demonstrably not true."
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