Summer of love: 40 years later - Hippie Hippie Shakedown: But where was love?

DailyNews.com ^ | 06/16/2007 | DAWN EDEN

[wtc911]

It was all the hippie leftists who broke down those values, directly leading to one of the worst social pathologies of today - fatherless children. Those fatherless children are the ones doing the drive-bys.

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Bullshit. The epidemic of fathers running from their responsibilities is a direct outcome of the Greatest Generation's 'Great Society' experiment which was hatched in DC years before the oldest boomer could even vote. Nice try though skippy.

[Drew68]

Of course, blame what is happening today on the 60s. Even though the 60s were completely innocent compared to the nightmarish violence of today.

Well, it took a few years for the 1960s to bear fruit.

Truthfully, though, much of the serious social problems we have today can be directly linked to LBJ's "Great Society" programs. Seriously. The opening of the floodgates to 3rd World immigration with the corresponding loss of shared American values, the destruction of the black family, the rise of violent street crime and a predatory criminal underclass, the rise of single motherhood, and on and on. While other factors definitely helped, LBJ's policies were instrumental in getting the ball rolling.

That's why I consider Johnson the worst president in the 20th century. I'd say the worst president ever but our current one is really trying hard for that title.

FWIW, I was born in the 60s and a child of the 70s and a teenager in the 80s and I can remember playing outside till nightfall without a worry in my mind.

[dragnet2]

Agree.

[dragnet2]

Well, it took a few years for the 1960s to bear fruit.

That is laughable.

[Drew68]

This mess falls at the feet of pre-boomers and that my friend is your greatest generation.

Yes, and I went on to mention "Great Society" but it looks like you beat me by about a minute.

[dragnet2]

That's why I consider Johnson the worst president in the 20th century. I'd say the worst president ever but our current one is really trying hard for that title.

This we can agree on. Since some here are attempting to place blame, is it not interesting that Johnson came out of Texas, and where, oh where has this current President surfaced from?

[The Worthless Miracle]

Never question anything! Just live like everyone else, and you’ll surely be happy.

[MrLee]

Hopefully the next President will be from California!

[Zionist Conspirator]

And these miserable people actually accused their parents' generation--the generation that gave thousands of its finest young men to destroy fascism--of "fascism!" That should tell you something about these ingrates.

The Sixties generation has got to be one of the most evil generations in world history. They cursed the country that defeated Nazism while celebrating one-party totalitarian states headed by "great leaders" (like Mao and Castro) where dissent was against the law and the press was entirely controlled by the regime. These miserable Communist ratholes were embraced as the antithesis of fascism while their own country, a country where dissent has almost always been tolerated (barring a few short emergency situations), whre there is a presidential election every four years and a full congressional election every two years--a country where the government doesn't own the press (though sometimes the contrary seems a possibility!) was despised. The hippies dismissed all these "petit bourgeois" freedoms as illusions and embraced carbon copies of Hitler and Mussolini because, they claimed, they fed their people.

So I guess according to the hippies, if Hitler and Mussolini had merely "fed their people" (instead of merely making the trains run on time), they would have been "morally superior" to the United States of America!

Does this means if President Bush "feeds his people" that he can declare himself "president for life" and outlaw all dissent, and then be supported by the Stephen Spielbergs and Michael Moores???

These Sixties hippies are the scum of humanity!

[dragnet2]

And these miserable people actually accused their parents' generation

You mean the generation where only the Dad had to work? The generation where they said, "gimmy a bucks worth of regular"? You mean the generation that purchased brand new homes on *one* income where Mom was actually able to say home and raise the kids without having to worrying about making the mortgage every month? The generation that had secure jobs, great, affordable family medical benefits? The generation that not only had secure jobs, but actually had retirement pensions? The generation that left lights on without worrying about paying the electric bill? The generation that used and wasted resources like they were endless?

Oh, that generation.

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[Zionist Conspirator]

And your point?

[dragnet2]

You mean the generation where only the Dad had to work? The generation where they said, "gimmy a bucks worth of regular"? You mean the generation that purchased brand new homes on *one* income where Mom was actually able to say home and raise the kids without having to worrying about making the mortgage every month? The generation that had secure jobs, great, affordable family medical benefits? The generation that not only had secure jobs, but actually had retirement pensions? The generation that left lights on without worrying about paying the electric bill? The generation that used and wasted resources like they were endless?

Oh, that generation.

And your point?

LOL! Ferrrget it.

[madprof98]

Today, the counterculture's victims are dying with few children to mourn them - at least, few who are willing to speak to parents who put their own desires ahead of their children's. It is the end of a long, bad trip

Would to God that they were in fact dying out! But in truth, the counterculture's values (or anti-values) are now mainstream in many places, California being one of them. Marriage, children, family life . . . forget it! It's all just ME, ME, ME . . . scratch every itch, and the consequences (many of them tiny) be damned.

[redhead]

Oh, my GOSH, I love that picture!!

[Malsua]

I’d buy that(those) for a dollar.

[dragnet2]

Yeah, the 60’s were better than today - today we reap the harvest that was sown back then.

Really, never heard of a drive by shooting or an invasion of millions of people entering the country illegally while the government encourages it.

What specifically is the relationship here?

[fr_freak]

Bullshit. The epidemic of fathers running from their responsibilities is a direct outcome of the Greatest Generation's 'Great Society' experiment which was hatched in DC years before the oldest boomer could even vote. Nice try though skippy.

There are two elements to any society's well-being: 1) what is legal, 2) what is moral. The Great Society crap promoted the legal decline, but it would not have mattered if not for the moral decline, not just allowed by the 60s hippies, but actively promoted by them. Hippies went out of their way to break down every moral code that Western society ever had. Do you think the promotion of homosexuality that we see today is a result of welfare programs? Hell no - it's the result of the hyper-permissive attitudes of the 60s hippies who, in order to engage in all of their debauchery, had to break down all of the moral barriers. Homosexuality is just part of that.

I know that some of you here are ex-hippies, who look back on those years with fondness, even if you don't agree with what that "movement" became, but you need to finally put the pieces together and realize that the whole hippie movement was mainly a bunch of naive kids, who wanted an excuse to get high and have sex all of the time, being used by anti-American socialists to promote an agenda. Stop romanticizing that time. OK skippy?