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to welcome to the fifty five Carssee Morning Show. Award winning author Rick Robinson,
He's authored of a dozen top selling books and multiple genres, political thrillers
and literary novels, Coming of Age, Guidance for Folks who didn't number one
Amazon top seller, and humor, often placing numerous books on Amazon top soloists
at the exact same time. His political and pop culture columns appeared in numerous
political publications, including The Daily Caller, Rare Reason, MKY Magazine, River
City News Link. I could go on, including the North Kentucky Tribune.
Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning You shot to talk about his book nineteen
sixty eight, premier for Understanding Baby Boomers, Rick Robinson, It's great to
have you on the fifty five KARSE Morning Show this morning. Hey Brian,
great, great to hear here from you, and I'm hearing the beautiful confines
of New Mexico in the Albuquerque Airport. Maybe the first interview you've ever done
the company by Muzac. There we go. It is a first. I
hope you are not having to deal with crowdstrikes, lasting issues for delayed flights,
Rick and safe travels to you. It is amazing, Brian. But
it is still happening. Oh no, happening today. Oh no. Well
we'll have I heeart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe on Thursday to talk about that
rack. Nineteen sixty eight a really, really pivotal year for United States.
I mean I immediately gravitate to gravitate to the nineteen sixty eight convention, of
course, because it was a major league disaster for the Democrats, police and
riot gears skulls getting crack protesters everywhere. But your book is I guess described
as a deep dive into the whole entire year. You do it month by
month, correct, do it month by month, But it is pivotal to
take a look at what's going on right now Brian, and understand and the
similarities that are going on between what you just mentioned the Democratic Convention in nineteen
sixty eight in Chicago as it will be again and what's happening now because you're
looking at a convention. We're outside the convention. The people were chanting,
as you said, Hedberg getting batched in Chicago and people were standing outside shouting
the whole world's watching. I'm wondering this year whether or not the whole world
will be watching, or the whole world will be searching Netflix to see what's
on besides the convention. You know, that's a really valid point because one
of the points I wrote down on my notes that ween talking to talk with
you. We live in a completely different universe in nineteen sixty eight. If
for no other reason, then we've got the Internet. And I say that
because organizing people in nineteen sixty eight required you know, mailing and flyers and
the normal kind of pre Internet outreach that you think of making telephone call.
So if you remember the free speech movement, the Students for Democrat Society,
or Vietna anti Vietnam groups of ones for another, if you want your people
to show up at a convention, you're going to have to reach out to
him, let him know where to be, when to be. But you
have to do it manually. Now you can do a blast text to the
entire world, and you can communicate with the entire world instantaneously. It's going
to be interesting to see if that actually happens in Chicago this time, because
there are still lingering issues very similar to nineteen sixty eight that can could galvanize
people to come to the convention, not the least of which you know.
Linda Johnson got out of the presidential race in nineteen sixty eight for numerous reasons,
however, the most important one being his party not liking the way he
was handling the Vietnam War. But you have a very similar situation happening right
here, as the Democratic Party is split on how President bit has handled Gaja.
We have a very big wing of the Democratic Party that is pro Palestinian.
You have, you know, I don't know if it's split down the
middle, but there is certainly a pro Israel pulp pro Palestine divide in the
Democratic Party. Will that lead to any student protest outside hard to tell you.
Well, it sounds likely that it will. But again taking the wind
out of the protesters' sales, Lyndon Johnson I choose not to accept the denomination
of the party. It turned into an open convention, so there was a
legitimate, at least on its face, a legitimate reason to get out there
and make an argument for your side of the case. If you're anti Vietnam,
you're going to be in favor of an anti Vietnam candidate on the other
side of the legend, And there may have been a pro Vietnam candidate,
and they obviously there's something to buy a debate and fight about. Kamala Harris
has been anointed. And if things continue down this path, and the screams
and cries of even among folks like Black Lives Matter, who are very upset
with the process, but you're going in with Kamala Harris as the nominee.
The delegates have already said, we're in favor of her. She's got enough.
She's got twenty nine hundred of them as of yesterday, which is enough
to secure the nomination. So she's effectively taken the wind out of the open
convention sales, leading really to nothing to protest about. Perhaps well, one
of the things to remember here, Brian, is that Hubert Humphrey and Kamala
Harris have one very important thing in common, and that is neither of them
want a primary Now Humphrey went into the process with a whole bunch of delegates,
but all of those delegates were through the old coronation process of the party's
Republicans of them press both where they would have caucuses as opposed to primaries to
determine delegate accounts. Humphrey, because of it being the old party rule,
got his delegates by going to conventions and caucuses and closed doored, smoke filled
rooms. He did not win a single not a single primary needed at Harris.
Now, the interesting thing is both parties are. The one thing that
ties it together to is in sixty eight and in twenty four, both candidates
both parties have to deal with some guy named Robert Kennedy. In sixty eight
it was the convention was the ghost of Robert Kennedy and where the anti war
movement went. And this time it's with Robert Kennedy Junior, and where the
anti vax movement goes. Ah see anti vaxx movement. I don't didn't ever
perceive it as being that large in terms of a movement like that's going to
get people off the couch. You know, Robert F. Kennedy and his
being anti vax do you think there's going to be a contingent of anti vax
folks in Chicago this year. I think Robert Kennedy Junior pulls t well from
both sides of the aisle and pulls them into this personal privacy state that both
parties have an interest in. And I think whether it's ten percent, whether
it's fifteen percent, when you get down to the bottom of it, is
still going to have an impact, huh. And that's because people are more
in favor of Robert of Kennedy gener than they are of Kamala Harris from maybe
Donald Trump. But he's not going to be on the ballot anywhere is he
He is on several ballots as in several of the states. And that's one
of the big differences between sixty eight and twenty four is that in sixty eight
you had a third party candidate in George Wallace. But George Wallace actually had
a strategy to try and win the presidency. Wallace's strategy was hope, hoping
that all of the segregationist Democrats who were very, very pissed off at Linda
Johnson for the Civil Rights Act in the Fair House, that they would vote
for him and that he would get enough delegates to be able to throw it
into the House of Representatives where the anti segregationist Democrats would throw it them to
Wallace to be president. Now, the one thing that happened in that case
was that Wallace's own ego kept him from doing that because he thought he could
win the country. But you look at Robert Kennedy. He's only on ballot
in a couple of a handful of states, yea, And he really doesn't
have a plan to become president, just a plan to become a thorn in
the side. Well, that may be his best role, at least as
of right now. It's relegated to that role. Apparently there are some discussions
going on between he and the Trump campaign as to whether or not there is
a place for him in the Trump administration. Well, I guess do you
think that many in the Democrats would be that he would be the secretary of
brain eating worms? Fair enough? Rick is known for his humor, by
the way, folks and read his books. Well, what of Kamala Harris?
Though? Do you think there are many within the Democrat Party? Again,
I looked up and point to the Black Lives Matter posts, and they
are really irked at this coronation of Kamala Harris. They want a democratic process.
They tell you the Democratic Party they look like a party of hypocrites.
Do you think there are many within Democrat camp who feel that way about this
railroad job that we seem to be facing right now. Again, I would
point to history if you take a look at when in sixty eight they went
through a democratic process but still coronated at Hubert Humphrey, yeah, the vice
president, to become the nominee. They came out of convention with no chance
whatsoever for Hubert Humphort to be President of the United States. None. It
was in such disarray, such disarray that in sixty eight they chase the rules
of the convention to what is very similar to what is taking place right now.
And I think the Democrats the only chance for having a chance is to
go into convention with a candidate and move forward that way. Would a lot
of the Democrats like to see a democratic process, I believe they would.
But the fact of the matter is, if you get into a floor floor
fight and you showed disarray, you're going to have another nineteen sixty eight a
Cuber concert coming out and not having a chance in a blue state to win
well. And I guess the larger looming question is can Kamala Harris run on
her well on her policies. She has a record that we can all point
to, and she was previously identified as the most liberal senator that was elected,
I mean, and a whole slew of very very left leaning, large
social programs that cost literally billions, if not trillions of dollars. I mean,
that's her record, That's who she is as a candidate. I'm just
wondering whether theater population can abide this continued further further left wing shift in the
country. You're You're exactly on point, Brian, in that I think,
much like nineteen sixty eight, this is going to go much more toward policies
than personalities. Let's say say it, if Richard Nixon would have had to
run on his personality, he would have ended up like he did in the
rate for governor and us not having him to kick around anymore. Understood,
But it went to policies against Humphrey, who you know. I thought it
was interesting at the time and going back and doing the research, Humphrey actually
didn't even have the support of the progressive side of his party. They didn't
think he was liberal enough. Yeah, and which is interesting because at the
time I thought you were very humphy were probably the most liberal person that had
ever been nominated for president. And that is you know, leads you to
a position of going, you know, you're right, this could be more
about policy than a personality. Well, the cutoff for baby boomers is nineteen
sixty four, which means they were four years old the youngest of them in
nineteen sixty eight for the convention. We have a different landscape now. The
youngest of the baby boomers are now turning sixty this year, getting closer to
retirement. As we move forward, this huge bubble of baby boomers and their
aging population, how do you think that's going to impact the election? Because
I know social security is a real problem for America generally, and people who
are on Social Security don't want any of it cut in any way, shape
or form. So that represents a sizeable voting block in so far as that
one issue is concerned. Absolutely, the number one issue is going to be
the election. We you and I need more handicapped lines at the voting booths
because we're all going to be going there in walkers and wheelchairs, all of
those zimmers. But the thing that will be happening is you're right, the
whole idea of if you're going to cut spending, you have to cut in
titlements. Oh you know what, I'm a lot less for that now that
I'm in title and age. Yeah, And I was when I who was
twenty five. Yeah, my mom is sixty or eighty four, and she
sees the writing on the at least she perceives the demise of our country down
the road because of the direction we're going, and she's like, well,
at least I won't be around to live through it. And I think that's
the attitude of a lot of baby boomers in so far as social security is
concerned. Yeah, Barry Goldwater wrote the Coming Breakpoint, and it might have
been around sixty eight where she projected that cecial security was donnotate, it could
not be maintained throughout the history of the country. And it turns out he
was right. Of course, there's never been any change to it, never,
and only confirmed over and over and over again with every CBO report on
the status of social security since his observations way back in sixty eight. Rick
Robinson, author of the book nineteen sixty eight, A Primer for Understanding baby
Boomers. Thanks for joining the program. Rick, It's always great having you
on and I'll wish you very safe travels and on time travels. Well,
we'll wait and see and I'll text you and see if I make it on
the next flight. About that, that'd be great. Good luck to that.
Rick. Your book is online at fifty five cars dot com on my
blog page, so folks can get a copy of it, and I will
definitely encourage them to do that. Really enjoy reading that book. Take care
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