The 60's generation

townhall.com ^ | 9/09/04 | Emmett Tyrrell

[My2Cents]

I'll place my generation's redemption into the hands of George W. Bush.

[My2Cents]

I'm with you. I was born and raised just 40 miles south of Haight-Ashbury, graduted from high school in 1969, but I had short hair, wore glasses like Barry Goldwater's, read "National Review," and did volunteer work as a "Teen-Age Republican" for the county GOP central committee. If I rebelled against anything in my adolescence, it was against my own peer group.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: "Johnson is thinking (as I am) of the left-wing students of the 1960s who rebelled against authority and promised to "reform" all the hoary institutions of their parents."

And these just happened to be the "urbane," liberal, wealthy, urban, coastal kids, or the wannabes thereof from other areas. The hardscrabble, modest ones, who went into the military and thenceforth into society as hardworking contributors never had the time to contemplate their navels and plan utopian monstrosities.

[GOP_1900AD]

More than one, for sure. Xers are too few in number to have enough impact. And the Boomlet are little Boomer clones, already frying their brains on drugs and socialism. It could take over 100 years.

[Tribune7]

Baby boomers need to redeem themselves, time is running out.

Dubya might be the guy.

[muggs]

bttt

[Nowhere Man]

To the 60s left that will NEVER grow up : God is tired of you, and so am I.

Thanks, I got to use that phrase sometime, "God is tired of you and so am I." Short and to the point whether it is used for the hippies that never grew up from the 1960's or the "neo-hippie" wanna-bees that are in the late teens or 20's today.

[Nowhere Man]

I agree that blanket condemnations are completely unfair...my generation hates that upon themselves. There are plenty of GenXers who tout the leftist line because they think it raises them above the rest of us who are not sold by it. Which I think it was brilliant for CinnamonGirl to distinguish those among the GenXers who uphold conservative values as Generation Reagan.

Yes, there are times when you need to put the shotgun away and go for the precision rifle. Yes, it is easy to use the shotgun approach and say all Boomers were worthless hippies, but many are or were not, again we can bring up people like Rush Limbaugh, President GW Bush, and many many others I've skipped over. We must not get them with "friendly fire" when we take member of that generation to task. I also include the ones that were hippies then but have since seen the errors of their ways and have come over to our side, at least they realize there was more to life than dope, free sex and rock and roll, although the last isn't really bad at all.

I have been trying to temper my scorn for the 60s for the radical Left that took over like a virus, remembering that amongst that generation were very brave people who fought in Vietnam and came back to be spit upon by their peers. But you see in my mind, when those soldiers came back they were no longer 60s CHILDREN, they were MEN, and deserved respect. So the distinction was such that to pour derision upon the 60s is NOT to include the men of Vietnam. In my particular view, it is to stand up for them and return the scorn upon the Leftist Hippies who were so horrible to the vets and did such harm to the rest of us. This is how it works out in my mind.

I'm an "early model X'er," born in 1966, will be 39 this year. Now to those who embraced the hippie ideas and spout the party lines of hating the US, our Armed Forces, the feminazis, politically correct crowd, free sex crowd, pro-homosexual, bra burning, and so on and never grew up out of that, all I can say is "shame on them" and "thanks a heap for screwing up my world." I know it is not the conservative thing to blame others but in this case, I have to go with what my eyes see and I do lay a huge, major part of the blame on them for the huge messes in society we have gotten into from the 1960's to now. I'm sure there are a fair share of lefties in the X'er Generation as well as the Y'er Generations, the "neo-hippies" or "hippie wannabes" I call them, but in all of this mess, I would see "Patient Zero" as the originals from the 1960's. I always felt it was up to the X'ers to clean up things, of course, we will need loads of help from the aging but good Boomers and Silent Generation (my parents are members of this) as well as the good Y'ers coming after us, but I think the X'ers need to lead, the early models are getting close to 40 if they are not there already.

But then, there is George W Bush who has been tempered himself and proves that not all Boomers are the filth-encrusted maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types that still go around trolling for attention and adulation.

Exactly, we need to put the shotgun down or at least watch where we point that thing. B-) See my reference above. B-)

As a Generation Reaganite though, I do get sick of some Boomers complaining that we don't appreciate them and don't follow in their footsteps. We've watched, we've paid attention, and we teach our own children what we've observed.

Again, it is not that we don't appreciate them, we just don't like the ideology the lefties want to foist on us, in the end, it doesn't matter who is in the driver's seat of the leftist juggernaut, if it wants to tear down all you hold near and dear, I con't care if the driver is a Boomer, X'er or Y'er. Come to think of it, IIRC correctly, one of the darlings of the hippie left is George McGovern and he is part of the "Greatest Generation" who fought World War II. I thank McGovern for his service, IIRC, he was a bomber pilot, he did his job well I'm sure, but what came after during the 1960's, I have lots of trouble with.

[Alkhin]

Wow! I had forgotten all about this thread! Thanks for pinging me!

You have good things to say. You are one year older than me : I was born in 1967. Not too sure if that makes me an early model X'er or not...

all I can say is "shame on them" and "thanks a heap for screwing up my world." I know it is not the conservative thing to blame others but in this case, I have to go with what my eyes see and I do lay a huge, major part of the blame on them for the huge messes in society we have gotten into from the 1960's to now.

AMEN!

...I just hope OUR children don't feel the same way about us...you know?...I mean, I hope they are able to study the 20th century and at least understand what it was that we had to deal with....but I guess that could be said of every generation...