There is NO emotional or philosophical commitment to the existing belief system or body of knowledge. There is an astrological answer to that which involves Saturn, Leo and Libra. The whole generation is suffering from an ego attachment to the philosophies they conceived and fought for in those years. They are done now. This is the philosophical blind spot of the boomer revolution.
Astrologers say each sign of the zodiac is an extreme reaction against the preceding sign.
So where Mercury in Libra would not be emotionally attached to the outcome of the election, Mercury in Scorpio would choose self-immolation rather than concede defeat once a course of action was chosen. Watery, emotional Neptune, was also visiting airy Aquarius, giving those who hear it's calling the spiritual courage, and vision necessary to fight the war, which began that evening. This combination is the same force, which endowed the boys in the Civil War with transcendent spirits. This was the astrological influence, which also endowed the leaders who died for the French Revolution. Only those whose astrological charts are positioned to hear the call will be moved to answer.