Americans get it right over time, lonesome. All this insurrection talk, Churchillian fight them on the beaches, we'll never surrender stuff comes up on 50-60 year cycles. Remember the Weathermen? Communists parachuting from the skies?

I interviewed a Baptist minister in a dusty Missouri town, where the Youngers used to drink, who was selling bazookas and other heavy stuff from his garage to hold them off. I was on my way to Utah and fire-breathing Billy James Hargis when I was pulled to cover a revolt in South America. This is another spell; it will pass.

(The black guys got their democratic reforms through a vote, the American patriots arming themselves against their government fizzled out. Different cultures. The blacks were as politically engaged as any group I've ever seen. I've listened to stevedores arguing for hours about a budget.)