[zzen01]

Finally a Canuck that get's it.

[CDHart]

Remember the song that went "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with?" I told my daughter a long time ago that that song was one of the things that started a whole lot of moral decay. Lately she has come to agree with me.

Carolyn

[conservlib]

I was listening to C-Span a couple of days ago, and want to report the following statistics. In 1970 20% of the Americans thought that they trusted the US Military to do the right thing, now the number is 75%. On the other hand, 70% of the public in 1970 trusted the media, and now it is 20%. This tells a whole story of the hippies, any comment.

[26lemoncharlie]

The Writer has finally described what so many Americans have known for a long time. The stench of Petchoulie is still in the air. I hated it then and I hate it now!!

None of it ever made any sense. The riots against Viet Nam and the Government itself stunk up the whole place and the Socialist took advantage of it and thru fuel on the fire!

[wrathof59]

The hippies and their larvae have done insurmountable damage to our society, and by the time they raid our grandchildren's futures for their retirement through unending social security/medicare, they will truly be the ugliest generation in our American history.

The "Flower Children" only are concerned about themselves and were phony since the 1960s. I recognized this 40 years ago.

[reg45]

The chickens have come home to roost.

[Slyfox]

The rule of law meant whatever you wanted it to mean at any given time.

[lodwick]

When we kicked God out of the country and decided that murdering babies was a good idea, evil stepped right in and is having a ball to this very day.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[durasell]

Having had the opportunity to view the so-called "counter culture" up close, I can tell you that "hippie" was just a phase that many people passed through on their way to jobs selling insurance and living in the burbs. It wasn't a lifestyle that very many adopted for the long haul. There were casualties from drugs and wrong thinking, but that number (though tragic) is relatively small.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "... but rather it (the American Revolution) determined God's power flowed to the people and not to the kings."

An interesting point but I wonder how many have considered the consequences of this? Any reading of the Old Testament will see the wrath of God was visited on nations for the sins of Kings. The people suffered for the failings for the Kings God Himself destined to rule. What on earth will be the fate of a nation that sins in the eyes of God for the failings they themselves created? There is no King to blame.

Abortion will not go unavenged.

[Humidston]

Here it is... Finally, someone (Herb Meyer) who puts it all into words. He's saying so eloquently what those of us in the '60's warned of and feared.

See also http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Paul_Jackson/2004/12/12/778557.html

I know what I'm buying my kids and grandkids right now!

[Helms]

"We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious. If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious. "-Bill Lind .

[Da Bilge Troll]

It didn't start in the 1960's!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298049/posts

[Chode]

Y'know, back in outer space, we used to drink - a lot! We used to take all kinds of kick-ass drugs and we showed blatant disrespect for any authority figures. Little did we know... we were undermining our entire value system.

GWAR - "The Obliteration Of Flab Quarv 7"

[blowfish]

Actually, I think the breakdown of society started in the '50s with the advent of Rock and Roll. All those crazy kids listening to Elvis and Chuck Berry.
Or wait, wasn't it that evil Jazz music that started destroying society with it's crazy jungle rhythms?
Face it, we've been destroying our society as long as we've *had* a society. And people have been bemoaning that destruction all along the way...

[NewLand]

Not content with just behaving themselves as they wanted to behave, the hippie movement and its adherents started electing their own kind to political office at local, state or provincial levels, and the federal level.

"We have to start electing people who know what they are talking about. Instead, we elect far too many people who pose, preen, say they feel our pain, say they are sympathetic to us, but they never solve any problems."

What they do, says Meyer, is subvert the foundations of our free society.

We are now in the second American civil war, against those who want to put the American Revolution in reverse.

Today, in the U.S., Canada and other democratic nations, we see the results.

There are no absolute rights or wrongs.

Whatever makes you feel good is just OK.

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Total validation of why The Reagan Revolution needs to keep expanding. Gen-Jones is about to become the dominant political force over the next 10-15 years and undo some of the Hippie-Boomer damages. After that...?

[Bernard Marx]

If you read this thread, don't miss the much more important thread that explains the true genesis of the mess we're in now: Political Correctness

[freeforall]

As a member of Canuckistan I agree with this...

"Blame hippies Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society"

Many of them came from south of the border.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The proliferation of psychics, seers, soothsayers, healers, gurus, etc., etc., ad nauseum, is a social psychosis, an occulted (or masked) promotion of Leftist propaganda (see the Paglia lecture at Yale, Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s).

Marxism and their forms of Cultural Marxism are a religion, a collection of cults. In many cases they worship a dead Karl Marx like some (and I stress some) Christians worship a dead Jesus, and not a living God. This is no more apparent than in the practice of enshrinement and regular grooming of Lenin's corpse in the former Soviet Union, the use of Princess Diana, Martin Luther King Jr. and other dead people to conjure up "spirits of the sixties."

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Visit my FR homepage and surf around the links, dude...