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Conservative Response To Counter Culture in 60's (Vanity)

Posted on 03/13/2005 3:26:41 PM PST by E-squirrel

Hi freepers. I need to know, for an assignment, what the Conservative Response was to Counter Culture in the 1960's. Any help would be deeply apreciated!!


TOPICS: Education; History; Miscellaneous; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: counterculture; hippies; vietnam
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1 posted on 03/13/2005 3:26:42 PM PST by E-squirrel
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To: E-squirrel

Outside of hosing them down there was none until Ronald Reagan and then Rush.


2 posted on 03/13/2005 3:28:44 PM PST by Bob J (RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
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To: E-squirrel

'those long-haired, pot-smoking, loose-living, god-damned hippies..."

at least that was my Dad's response....


3 posted on 03/13/2005 3:33:37 PM PST by bitt ("Conservatism is the dominant political creed in America,")
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To: E-squirrel

Some might say it was the Jesus Movement!


4 posted on 03/13/2005 3:33:51 PM PST by buckeyesrule
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To: E-squirrel

Nixon's double election?


5 posted on 03/13/2005 3:38:43 PM PST by canalabamian (Diversity is not our strength...UNITY is.)
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I am in my early 50's, but my memory of that period is fairly vivid. The conservative response to the counter culture of the60's was very tentative.

Barry Goldwater was the Republican nominee in 1964 against "the legend" JFK's successor Lyndon Johnson, the country perceived Kennedy and his successor Johnson as liberals, although they deepened our involvement in Viet Nam.

Johnson destroyed Goldwater in the election of 1964, the Beatles became the best rock group and first of its kind, with a counter culture theme, followed by many other musical groups. Conservatism was perceived as anti-progressive, out-of -the-mainstream, and even backwards. This pretty much remained the case till Johnson was overwhelmed by the escalation in Viet Nam, chose not to run in 1968, and the tide slowly began to turn. Nixon was elected ina close election, the counter culture still dominated, and helped drive Nixon from office. The media had it all its own way without any real challenge.

This trend carried into the 1970's, till Ronald Reagan came along, and implicitly and explicitly took the counter culture to task for being overly critical of American values and culture.


6 posted on 03/13/2005 3:43:30 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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Get a haircut you freak!

That was about it.

SO9

7 posted on 03/13/2005 3:47:17 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Zivasmate

Don't forget that Nixon was re-elected in a landslide in 1972 against Mondull. Then he had his problems which put Gerald Ford in office who was not a strong conservative by any stretch. Then he pardoned Nixon which probably cost him the next election to the peanut farmer.


8 posted on 03/13/2005 3:50:57 PM PST by westmichman (Pray for global warming. Friend of Ronnie -(stolen from The Patriot))
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To: E-squirrel
... what the Conservative Response was to Counter Culture in the 1960's.

Well, on a personal level, for me it was things like disdain, contempt, dispisement, scorn, digust, being appalled, low-level hatred ... those kinds of things; the typical reactions of the adult, normal people around at the time.

9 posted on 03/13/2005 3:54:43 PM PST by SamKeck
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You need to point out that, even though all we hear nowadays about the counterculture is that it defined the 60's, there were pro-culture marches and events all along the way.

The MSM define themselves by their alliance with the counter-culture so they only show that side. The movie 'Patton' (1972?)won the oscar during the heyday of the 60's counterculture (the '60's' didn't really start until about 63-64 and it ran right up until Nixon resigned). Other counter-counter culture events were the popularity of John Wayne and others right alongside the hippies. One of the reasons I am a Republican is that I saw how the Democrats aligned themselves with the anti-war low-lifes. I was raised Irish-Catholic and there was only one way to vote - Democrat! Since I didn't turn 18 until 1978 and I had already seen the light, I have NEVER turned a lever for a Democrat and I most likely never will.

10 posted on 03/13/2005 3:55:47 PM PST by keithtoo (Kennedy says he's Irish, but we all know he's full of Scotch.)
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The real coservative response came from Ronaldus Magnus. He had articles in the Readers Digest every couple months about rebuilding our military, and talks to Americans every Saturday around the time of the Paul Harvey broadcast and the American people warmed up to and believed him.


11 posted on 03/13/2005 3:56:04 PM PST by westmichman (Pray for global warming. Friend of Ronnie -(stolen from The Patriot))
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Don't forget that Nixon was re-elected in a landslide in 1972 against Mondull.

You mean George McGovern.

12 posted on 03/13/2005 3:56:07 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: Euro-American Scum

I stand corrected, sometimes the pen gets ahead of the brain. Thanks!


13 posted on 03/13/2005 3:57:57 PM PST by westmichman (Pray for global warming. Friend of Ronnie -(stolen from The Patriot))
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I stand corrected, sometimes the pen gets ahead of the brain. Thanks!

McGovern. . . Mondale. . . Pick one from column A, two from column B, you get a whacked-out, liberal, fried egg roll either way.

14 posted on 03/13/2005 4:00:38 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: E-squirrel
Check out this interesting article on this very subject, by Dave Kupelian of WorldNetDaily.com.
15 posted on 03/13/2005 4:08:16 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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The Feminist movement was a lie. It was based on the idea that a career could emotionally substitute for a family. And it said that gender roles were 100 society, and that men and women were exactly the same because of conditioning. And that all housewives were Depressed.

I've got news for you, MOST WOMEN DID NOT WANT TO WORK BACK THEN!


16 posted on 03/13/2005 5:29:11 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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How about, WE ALMOST WON VIETNAM. AND PEOPLE WERE SLAUGHTERED BECAUSE THE US PULLED OUT.


( I'm 18, hey what college you go to!)

I am so glad to be around now, during the Conservative Revolution.



17 posted on 03/13/2005 5:30:58 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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What was the conservative response? Well, I asked my dad about the 60s, and he said it was "just a bunch of kids hanging out and listening to music" and not the big "cultural Revolution" we think it is.



18 posted on 03/13/2005 5:32:45 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: E-squirrel

I'd say do a Google search on Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum. If you want the perfect counter to the Feminists, she's the one you'd want.

Past that, William F. Buckley might be worth researching if you need counters to other facets of Counterculturalism.


19 posted on 03/13/2005 6:05:50 PM PST by WeaponOfMassInstruction
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"National Guard 4, Kent State 0"


I know, sick. But the first time I heard it, I laughed.


20 posted on 03/13/2005 6:18:50 PM PST by Cagey
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