Deja vu

As one who has always enjoyed the study of history — and as historians will tell you, wait long enough and it will repeat itself — I’m of the belief that time will come this summer in Milwaukee, when the Democratic Party holds their nominee convention.

I think that it has a strong possibility of mirroring the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. For you too young to remember, it broke down to three days of rioting, police turned violent, National Guard called up. In the aftermath, the party and eventual candidate were politically damaged and sorely beaten by Richard Nixon in November. The Vietnam anti-war protest was mainly the cause for the riots.

Those people are now in their 70s, the age of some of you grandparents. If they could burn Chicago 52 years ago, some of this crowd in this current atmosphere certainly could. It’s not that hard to envision. Hope it’s contained to Milwaukee.

Jerry Sletvold

Spokane Valley