For those of you over 40 Patty Hearst was remembered as the heiress to the Hearst Newspaper Syndicate who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a rag-tag underground organization who committed acts of murder and terror in California in the early 1970s in an effort to tear down the 'straight' fabric of society while promoting a radical agenda which was all about striking a blow for any minority or disenfranchised people.
... so, a real fun crowd to run around with. The 1970s was a mirror reflection of our Trump-voter Red-capped era today. Back then the hippy, multi-racial, feminist, radical left was the fringe, the edge and almost always seemingly wild and full of revolutionary volatile language who had a minority voice. The Establishment was the straight, conservative, white male bastion of majority rule and conservative politics.
2020 is 1970 upside down.
During her kidnapping Ms. Hearst was transformed into a new persona, having undergone what some call the 'Stockholm Syndrome,' where the kidnapp-ee feels sympathy and attachment to the motives and causes of the kidnappers. Patty became 'Tania' for a while and participated in a bank hold-up.
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