Kennedy reflected the politics of the 1960s. While the 1960s saw a boom in college enrollment and America's youth became involved in intellectual activities, a culture of opposition began to emerge. Not only did participatory democracy, in which people were encouraged to express how they felt, even to the point of taking to the streets to make their point, become popular, but radicalism and violence also increased. Like American youth, they felt a growing distrust of their elders. Even so, the dominant idea at the time was that it was the individual who should intervene when expressing one's political beliefs. In Alice Echols' book Daring to be Bad, this was illustrated by the saying that the personal should also be the political. This meant that a person's political beliefs should also be reflected or be better represented by that person's personal beliefs.