[truth_seeker]

“But I hate the damaging ideas that came out of that decade:”

There were no new ideas. The ideas had been around for decades.

Marxist rebellion since Manifesto published 1848.

Unions and increased socialism in America clearly since the 1930s.

Womens’ rights ongoing, since voting (1920)and flapping (1920s).

Many civil rights which blacks had previously been promised weren’t fully realized until the 1960s.

Drugs were not introduced in the 1960s. Cocaine was used long before, as was marijuana.

As a 1965 HS grad, I know we were NOT all alike. We were NOT all druggies, did NOT all have shoulder length hair, did NOT all listen to music 24/7, did NOT all protest the war in Vietnam, etc.

Always, always, always remember in 1972 McGovern got obliterated by the Silent Majority who re-elected Nixon.

[boop]

"always, always, always remember in 1972 McGovern got obliterated by the Silent Majority who re-elected Nixon"

True. The leftists are so far out there that they will repel the vast majority of the American public, as long as the conservatives can just call attention to it in a gigantic way. Dirty hippies going ape-poop on national tv during the conventions severely damaged the democrats.

[RepublitarianRoger]

There were no new ideas. The ideas had been around for decades.

Well, sure. I never said they were fully new ideas. But those ideas exploded into popular culture in the '60s in a way that was unprecedented until then. Something definitely happened in that decade of turmoil and astounding change; no denying that.

As a 1965 HS grad, I know we were NOT all alike. We were NOT all druggies, did NOT all have shoulder length hair, did NOT all listen to music 24/7, did NOT all protest the war in Vietnam, etc.

Yes, of course. I never said or even insinuated that everyone was alike. You don't have to make that point with me. But the contingent of people that DID do these things you mentioned changed society in some profound ways, and altered the concept of liberalism from what it had been before the '60s. We are still suffering from those changes.

Always, always, always remember in 1972 McGovern got obliterated by the Silent Majority who re-elected Nixon.

Yes, but that seems a very small point to me, in contrast to the profound changes (most for the worse, in my view), that have been wrought upon society, Silent Majority or no Silent Majority.

[Freedom4US]

Drugs were not introduced in the 1960s. Cocaine was used long before, as was marijuana.

Well, yeah technically speaking. Not on a massive industrial scale by the broad middle class however. In a lot of ways the 60s didn't start till the 70s in this regard.