Posted on 06/17/2007 12:07:44 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
More like the entrepreneural spirit of three guys.
Yes, but according to some, the "hippies" of 40 years ago, are the cause of all the problems today. Murders, drive-bys, mass shootings, illegal aliens, Muslim fanatics that want to kill us, sadistic child murderers etc, lawless borders, why Mom and Dad both have to work 85 plus hours a week just to pay a mortgage, fuel prices, etc
Speaking of crap.
having lived through all those events you mention .. when you think of the big social divide/upheaval, really was all after the JFK assassination. Honestly, it was really much more civil till before that. In my mind, I think of the 60’s as almost two very distinct decades .. earry 60’s and late 60’s.
Wasn’t it ‘63 also that the SCOTUS banned prayer in school? Then so many things went on simultaneously, the Civil Rights struggles, the Great Society, the VN anti-war/hippie movement, the women’s movement. Very tumultuous times. And we’re still paying!
We'll one thing for sure, it wasn't the boomers or the hippies that punched holes in JFK, if you're suggesting the JFK hit was more less a kicking off point to what we have today.
Of course not! The law and order structures of the country hadn't been destroyed yet by the politically correct ideas of the 1968 New Left.
You have to sow before you can reap. The seeds for this current lawlessness was sewn on a hundred college campuses and in millions of white middle class homes 40 years ago.
Now we are reaping the whirlwind.
You bet, our entire country has been undermined by few long haired hippies from 40 years ago.
Nancy Pelosi; John Kerry; Carl Levin; Bill and Hillary Clinton; Al Gore; Chuck Shumer; Barbara Boxer; Dianne Feinstein....
They certainly have a death-grip on power now!
It's beyond hypocritical, it's evil.
that’s not what I was suggesting at least as you seem to have read it ... unless, perhaps the change of Administration and the focus that LBJ had was part of it. Don’t you have to agree that that is a strong possibility?
LBJ thrust the Great Society on us, creating a dependency we’d never known and couldn’t have imagined. Illegitimacy spiraled out of control thanks to his Great SOciety. Vast illegitimacy begets crime. LBJ pursued the VietNam war in a way no prior CinC had, helping to give rise to the anti-war left.
IF I had to pinpoint the change, yep, it goes to the assassination. And the more catastrophic change of Administration that immediately followed.
Agree. And yet LBJ wasn't a boomer, and I don't think he was hippy either.
Who are now in charge: Nancy Pelosi; Chuck Shumer; Bill Clinton' Hillary!; Dianne Feinstein; John Kerry; Al Gore....
All children of the 60's all products of the New Left.
As a group they have done more to destroy law and order in this country through legislation and confiscatory taxation than any generation in history.
No, but somebody had to vote for him.
No, but somebody had to vote for him.
So let me get this straight, your suggesting LBJ was elected President by baby boomers and hippies?
Man, this is the funniest thought I've had all night.
No, of course not. The lefties all voted for Goldwater you nitwit.
Good evening...
Can’t. I’d turn to stone look at Her Heinous’ Gorgonesque countenance..
They weren’t the greatest generation, because they raised the worst. They failed. It was the 1st Dr. Spock generation.
Of course teenagers didn’t invent it, but they swallowed it whole. They “innovated” the invention - which is the more important thing.
If a few nutcases from the Silent Gen or “Greatest” (cough cough) Gen had no bands of followers, they would remain “a few nutcases”.
It took a bunch of spoiled-rotten (by the GG) brats to suck up the idea that they should continue to be spoiled and do anything they wanted. They were the true spreaders of the disease.
Best part.
They aren’t, weren’t hippies ... they were, are 60’s radicals ... SDS.
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