Fifty-three years ago yesterday — October 21, 1967 — was a landmark event in the modern history of the United States.  On that fine fall Saturday in Washington, D.C., a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 people assembled in the largest anti-war demonstration in American history up to that point.  The event was called the March on the Pentagon. It was a significant part of and an escalation in the attempt by the left to shut down the U.S. military's and the country's political involvement in Vietnam — and in so doing (while not exactly clear at the time) to plant some important seeds for increasing popular support for the eventual transformation of America to a collectivist, socialist model. Why is this event from half a century ago significant now?  For one thing, it helped to set the stage for profound policy changes in the years to come, paving the way for the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina and the ignominious defeat in...(Read Full Post)