[VR-21]

The "Boomer Left" was more of a symptom than the actual disease. I make no excuses, but I do want to point out that the "long march through the institutions" the author alludes to really started much earlier.

Timothy Leary, Alan Ginsburg, Jean Paul Sarte, Rachel Carlson and that ilk were not boomers, for that matter.

I recommend a study of the Frankfurt School and it's agenda if you wish to see who pulled the strings on so many gullible boomers. The monster we live with now was incubated in the very early years of the 20th Century.

[nathanbedford]

guys, have a look here to see what John Dean is up to. He has stolen a page right out of Theodor Adorno's THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY and applied it to the Republican psyche:

Why Authoritarians Now Control the Republican Party

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900224/posts

My post appears as number 48.

[cinives]

Exactly. A part of history most people never heard and do not stumble across.

[IronJack]

the Frankfurt School

Yep. And Antonio Gramsci, one of Hillary Clintons' favorite social architects.

[wardaddy]

boy...what a great post....refreshing to see someone who actually reads

[Bernard Marx]

I do want to point out that the "long march through the institutions" the author alludes to really started much earlier.

Absolutely. I remember the "Impeach Earl Warren" signs very well and he was by no means the first. Warren may have done more long-lasting harm to the country from his perch on the Supreme Court than any other single individual.

The march through the the institutions began in the 1930s and was in full flower by the time Whittaker Chambers began spying for the USSR. The Roosevelt administration was riddled with Communists or anti-American sympathizers in positions of power, chief among them Alger Hiss, the prime architect of the UN. The New Left of the Sixties was a second-generation phenomenon.