Sorry about that California experience. I grew up in the Bay Area (Palo Alto) in the 50’s and 60’s, good liberal schools and parents and an emphasis on fighting racism and of course ending the war. Have lived in Utah since ’72 so I know a lot about right wing weirdness;) I’ll only add that Biden authored and pushed through the Violence Against Women Act and fought hard several times for its reauthorization. Things have changed with war in those years. When we were young our country could march us into a meat grinder with little protest at home, could literally kill millions of civilians, in secret and in the open. Now, casualties both military and civilian are avoided at great cost and effort and we do not “carpet bomb” anyone. Small progress maybe…positive change always seems infuriatingly slow. Let’s hope and work for peace and progress.