Primary

documentary

Primitively filmed, up-close look at the efforts of Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy to win the Wisconsin primary election in 1960.

Of course the MIC and the rot of the national security state was already ensconced when this took place but it still was heartbreaking watching these two guys sweating out the vote of rural residents and small-town folk as if it mattered to the future of the nation. As if when elected they would actually gain real power.

So Kennedy won, set a healthy course away from the madness of eternal war and nuclear confrontation and ended up with his brains scattered all over a street in Dallas. And we've never re-gained our innocence. His murder was an object lesson in what happens if you thwart the real rulers.

Sad, important peek at who we once were. Or at least who we people on the pavement thought we were.

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