If it wasn't for Vietnam, would we be a leftist society today?

[King]

(1) Vietnam ruined LBJ's domestic agenda
(2) Protests of the war led to the invention of "hippies"--giving liberalism some bad PR (every liberal is labeled a hippy for the next 40 years
(3) No Vietnam = Great Society expanded + LBJ re-election in 68
(4) No Nixon comeback = no Watergate = no national distrust in government
(5) No Watergate = no sad sap Jimmy Carter Presidency
(6) No Carter = No opening for a Reagan presidency
(7) No sound conservative movement in the United States

[King]

We aren't a leftist society.

Learn to read.

It sounds like it's implying that we are leftist.  I see no correlation between us moving to the left without Vietnam but it's amazing what drugs can do to people so it's hard to say.

Learn to read.

[King]

Derek is right. The title is easy to misread.

He read it as if you were asking if we would be the leftist society we are today without Vietnam.

Well, we're obviously not a leftist society today so I still don't see how anybody could assume that is what I meant.