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The Electric Tea Party Acid Test
Pajamas Media ^ | October 11, 2010 | Zombie

Posted on 10/12/2010 6:39:17 AM PDT by decimon

This is a memo to America’s hippies:

Tea Party values are hippie values.

You heard me right. The Tea Party is the one social movement in contemporary America that can rightfully claim to be the ideological heir to the original hippie movement that started in the mid-’60s. And because of this, all current hippies and ex-hippies should support the Tea Party, and by extension Tea Party candidates.

I’d like to have a private heart-to-heart talk with my fellow hippies here, so can the rest of you please stop reading now and leave us alone for a while? Thanks.

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I've been around a while and don't believe labels like 'hippie' to have much meaning.

Nonetheless...

1 posted on 10/12/2010 6:39:20 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Hippie: Those looking for the freedom to conform.


2 posted on 10/12/2010 6:42:31 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Hippie: Those looking for the freedom to conform.

We all conform. Those free conform voluntarily and as to their choosing.

3 posted on 10/12/2010 6:45:31 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Oh dry up Dursley...

and that chart is seriously, well, just wrong.

Islamists are for ‘individualism’? Really?


4 posted on 10/12/2010 6:52:16 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I’m sorry, ‘inate human nature’... as being natural and not constructed.

Tis very ‘constructed’.


5 posted on 10/12/2010 6:54:02 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: decimon

I’m right in the area between Tea Party and Hobo, with the Hippies off to my left.


6 posted on 10/12/2010 6:56:01 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
Islamists are for ‘individualism’?

Not according to the chart.

7 posted on 10/12/2010 6:57:12 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

What is a Trustifarian Anarchist? New one on me.


8 posted on 10/12/2010 6:59:12 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Joe 6-pack
I’m right in the area between Tea Party and Hobo...

Given your tag, is that the Beer Party?

9 posted on 10/12/2010 7:00:29 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I’m more of a sterno man ;-)


10 posted on 10/12/2010 7:03:30 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
What is a Trustifarian Anarchist?

A trustifarian is someone living off of inheritance while playing at being counterculture.

11 posted on 10/12/2010 7:03:43 AM PDT by decimon
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To: Joe 6-pack
I’m more of a sterno man ;-)

Ah, an outdoorsman. Good, good.

12 posted on 10/12/2010 7:07:02 AM PDT by decimon
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

They have private money (TRUST funds), smoke dope and like ska and Bob Marley’s music (rastaFARIAN) and they think rules do not apply them.

The ones I have known are quite far left to the point of being Marxist, meaning they want a dictator to keep everyone else under control in accordance with the trustafarian anarchists’ desires.

Illogical and convinced that they are superior, as well.


13 posted on 10/12/2010 7:08:58 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

I don’t know, but they might be the “crash the Tea Party” folks. I had a wierd e-mail interchange with one of them in which I was so maddened by his double-think—asserting that he was an anarchist, but that he opposed the Tea Party because it would ‘hurt the poor’ (by cutting government transfer payements)—that I suggested he complete the absurdity of his position by organizing a group called “Anarchists for Big Government” and registering it as a 527.


14 posted on 10/12/2010 7:23:54 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: decimon

There were several “trustifarians” at Yale when I was there, including one who was a classic hippie girl in every sense except for having a nationally recognized name and being heir to a fortune. I don’t think her principles extended to donating her fortune rather than living off of it. A lot of it probably ended up with various far left organizations though.


15 posted on 10/12/2010 7:34:52 AM PDT by comitatus
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To: decimon

I’m a member of the “Woodstock” generation, and I could have been there, but, didn’t go because it seemded a hassle to get there. We were all about doing your own thing.

Now, I sit at a board meeting of our Temple and listen to members of the Woodstock generation angry at people who smoke tobacco in our parking lot, and wanting to make it a “smoke-free campus,” which we have as legal right to do. It is our property. But the idiots don’t even want to have a smoking section on the parking lot with an ash receptical. I told them that the Woodstock generation will defy their rules and leave butts all over the parking lot.

I understand how that happened. We were never about doing YOUR own thing. We were about doing MY own thing. A huge distinction.


16 posted on 10/12/2010 7:52:28 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: comitatus
There were several “trustifarians” at Yale when I was there, including one who was a classic hippie girl in every sense except for having a nationally recognized name and being heir to a fortune.

That's become a familiar theme. The plot remains obscure.

17 posted on 10/12/2010 7:54:06 AM PDT by decimon
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To: comitatus
including one who was a classic hippie girl in every sense except for having a nationally recognized name and being heir to a fortune.

Being in college should be on your list, Hippies were rare, not like what the word describes today, you could not be a true hippie, yet attending college and living the life of a straight, dress, drugs, and weekend rock concerts did not make a hippie.

They were non political, they were back to the land people, and they were deliberate drop outs from the establishment that wanted the government, and the establishment to leave them alone, hippies were not picking up degrees and striving for credentials to run the establishment.

18 posted on 10/12/2010 11:09:55 AM PDT by ansel12
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