Fine Warwick Beacon editorial.. but ?

There was an excellent editorial in the Warwick Beacon today

    ( Oct. 27 ) : " Apathy strikes at the heart of a democracy " It made

    this point ..." not voting simply allows the country to be run by a

    small minority of people representing the extremes of each party ".

           But then the editorial became unintentionally hilarious . A

    sentence began: " True a substantial effort is required to be a

    knowledgeable voter ..."

             In the next paragraph we read : " Nixon in turn would  win

    over McGovern in 1968 by a similarly slim  margin "

            Sorry to make an embarrassing correction of a fine editorial

    BUT... Nixon defeated Hubert Horatio Humphrey in 1968 ! How can anybody

    of Bill Clinton's generation ever forget the big stories of that most

    momentous of all years - 1968 ?

            In 1972 Nixon demolished McGovern in the presidential election .

    The 60s ended on that depressing  night.

              I recall voting not for " radical "  George but for a REAL

    RADICAL, the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party.

           Like  writer George Orwell, I have always been a " fugitive from

    the camp of victory ".

           But I have always -as The Warwick Beacon editorial suggests -

    made a substantial effort to be knowledgeable .