Aunt Susan Doing the Gods' Work to Win not just the Mid-terms but the future.
— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) April 30, 2026
Great job both of you. @sjkokinda https://t.co/NhqneSuZBq
2:44. What was important to you at the time, both in 1968 as well as in 1981?
2:57. Really both years it was the same thing I sensed even at the young age which I was then in 1968 I sensed that something had gone very wrong obviously with the assassination of JFK that there was a change in the directions in the country and I didn't understand what it was early but I knew there was just something that was going on that was taking us in a direction that was different which had characterized the early JFK period, which was progress, science, which was technology. And I was a child of the Space Program. I wanted to be an astronaut, and somehow all of that began to change. I began to see the emergence of the rock, drug, sex counterculture which just seemed very strange to me, you know, this kind of hedonistic approach as opposed to the sense that the nation has a mission and you should devote yourself to a mission not to what makes you feel good. Again it was unformed for a while but then as I became more politically attuned and astute I began to dig more deeply into what is causing this. And by the time I was in Washington DC in 1981, it was pretty clear that there was a deeper historical fight going on than I think most people were aware of.
