and the graduate student who was doing this study, richard bromguard, was surprised by what he described as the belief of yaf members that a continued rift to socialism and moral decay would be reversed in the near future by an awakening of the american people resulting and moving the train of events back to common sense. he also surveyed members of students for a democratic society which was the leading new left or left i organization -- leftist organization on campuses of the '60s and the young democrats and the college republicans. and he reported on his results in an article that he co-wrote and was published in an academic journal. it's interesting to view some of the projections of these yaf members in 1966. one yaf member predicted a redirection of american society towards freedom and conservative principles. remember again he's writing in 1966, and here's what he said. the united states led by hypocritical and unprincipled leaders becomes very bureaucratic and increasingly socialistic. the united states generally loses the battles in foreign affairs because it does not present it