Posted on 08/24/2003 12:57:18 AM PDT by cousinkoala
You mean it wasn't Joe Stalin?
Everyone just commited suicide?
Human nature transcends ideology. Its strengths and weaknesses are demonstrated by individuals. Some ideologies are better than others at encouraging the former and discouraging the latter. None can change it.
The young of each generation are smart enough to see the faults and hypocrisy of their parents - the differences between what they say and what they do. But very, very rarely can they see farther. As a result each generation repeats the mistakes of the grandparents and great-grandparents.
This is a mistake made by practically every generation. It's the basis of the word "sophomoric" and why Churchill's comment about being liberal at 20 and conservative at 40 is true.
A much deeper manifestation, though, was the manipulation of that generation by communist operatives of the New Left like Hayden, Horowitz, Fonda and countless others. The fulcrum for their totalitarian lever was Vietnam and the draft. LBJ and Robert MacNamara mismanaged the Vietnam war in what I consider criminal fashion, playing politics in place of either using enough force to win or getting out. So a huge number of draft-age students demonstrated against the war singing along with Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, etc., or went to Canada. That's a topic for another thread except to say that the student demonstrations demolished old notions of patriotism and national unity.
By taking over the universities and bureaucracy, the Sixties radicals (usually the red diaper offspring of Communists from the 20s onward) have been able to set much of the national agenda through revisionist history, political correctness, junk science, economic manipulations and making treasonous deals with international agencies like the U.N. I may be a pessimist but the Communist genie is very far out of the bottle. I don't see any unified and effective movements to stop it at this late date.
I thought the words after these were a link, they were in RED?
Was I mistaken?
If so, I was wrong in the link reply.
But on a uniquely massive scale, as your explanation illustrates. Today, Conservatives are more proccupied with trying to define themselves then they are with combating the socialism within.
Fault of '60s ideology, no.
Indulgence of the '60s ideology, yes.
Human behaviors were thought to have no consequences. Time taught otherwise.
On alcholism
I had an Irish neighbor. He had watched his father die of delirium tremens. Before that his uncle. In fact his male ancestry had been dying of the disease for generations. Yet no one warned him of the dangers of alcoholism. He was the first of his line to realize what was going on and break the cycle. He did so in the '60s.
On consequences
The '60s generation took wealth and intelligence for granted and devalued the work ethic. The result was license was mistaken for freedom. In their zeal for fairness and their desire to eradicate tribal brutality they embraced a communist approach to wealth and property - a disaster.
I agree and this can't be stressed enough. Any talk of protracted, infleuential culttural change is exxagerated. Yes, there was a cultural change, but part of the myth is that America overcame its naivete, suggesting that prior generations were relatuively witness, not notably savvy, etc.
Anyone who has actually spoken to old timers knows this isn't true.
The cultural revolution was really the self centered baby boomers growing into their teens, and projecting their experience to the whole nation. In the process, America didn't grow up - they just went through that rebellion phase not uncommon for that age group. There were just so many of them, and they tend to be so self centered, that they overstated their contributions and significance. Make no mistake, the boomer is best characterized by their dominant trait - self indulgence and self centeredness. I am glad I was born in 1968!
...clouded by vodka!
...clouded by vodka!
Communists?
I don't either!
They've been drowning in vodka and tyranny for centuries.
My point! Therefore, the "communist --clouded in vodka."
Forget it!
Yes I am paying the price now for the liberals from the 60's. But I wasn't exposed to their influence/brainwashing. My parents brought be up to think for myself .. they also taught me what is right and what is wrong.
The baby boomers from the 60's said they would change the world ... They did that alright .. for the worse
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