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You know, I have often thought about those years. The "generation gap" permeated even small towns in the Midwest. Why was it that the normal tensions between teens and their parents got magnified into a national movement? How complicit was the media in fanning the flames of inter-generational war?

The anti-war movement was partially funded by the communists. That is a fact that came out years after the war. The tv networks, we now find out, were run by a bunch of leftists (and who would have thought it of dear old Uncle Walter?).

The movies of the time (The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, MASH) celebrated anti-establishment actions and lawlessness. People like John Kerry got to testify in Congressional hearings.

I have come to believe it was a well-orchestrated plan to undermine our society. I suppose I will have to wrap myself in tinfoil, but I can't think of any other explanation, unless we all went crazy at once.

Even before The Graduate was Rebel Without a Cause.

Hillary has been talking a lot about the Republicans trying to undo the New Deal of Roosevelt. Interesting that many of these links go back to that mini Constitutional Revolution. I wonder is all of this, some of this, any of this will play badly for her if these links can get out into the public.

Would Rush or Hannity or The American Spectator do some dot connecting in the next 6 months? I know better than to wonder if Time, Newsweek, etc. would touch it with a 10 foot pole. (Evan Thomas is Norm Thomas' son or grandson...)

Yet, it seems like all of the links are just sitting there, waiting to be connected.

What do other 50 something's and older remember about how the hippies came to their towns?

Pinz