I was born in 1940 and grew up in a stable, traditional family. My politics were Republican, staunchly supportive of Nixon and anti Kennedy.
My activities in the late 50's and early 60's were strongly based on moral and humanitarian principles. I marched with the Freedom Riders at the local Greyhound bus station in SE Ky and was threatened with lynching by an Appalachian with a shotgun. I was a founder of the SDS at Antioch in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Drugs, sex and rock and roll played no part in any of this.
By the mid 60's it had all changed. Boston in the mid 60's was awash in antiwar sentiment stirred up by Marxists. The SDS had been engulfed by communists.
I was in Seminary at Tufts and immune to the draft but soaked my draft card in blood as an act of moral defiance. Later interviewed by the FBI in the Dean's office, I stood my ground and was, no doubt, dismissed as naive and idealistic. I was, by then, vigorously anticommunist.
By the late 60's in Boston drugs, sex and rock and roll were all that was left of a once powerful movement. It required another 15 yrs to get past the demise and get grounded in evangelical Christianity and Reagan politics.
I never even liked Reagan at first...didn't vote for him....
now I consider him to be one of the greatest presidents we'er ever had....
Definitely a center for the spread of the 1960's virus. Had more people been aware of this nut hatchery, it probably would have been bombed. It made places like Bard College look normal.
Congratulations on your revovery.
As I recall, Antioch is closing either this year or next.
Apparently the tripe the sell isn’t selling.
Thank you for some clarity on the meaning of the word ‘resistance’. Our mold of how we are created is based on freedom and accountability on choices made. Every government policy created against the principle of Survival of the Fittest is not freedom and should be resisted. Peacefully if government peacefully attempts to implement them, forceful resistance if government attempts to implement them with force.