[Trampled by Lambs]

Chiming in from the tail end of the Boomer generation (born 1959)...

I came of age in the 70's admiring the likes of Contry Joe etc. a great deal. We spent the 70's pretending we were hippies, though the Summer of Love, if it ever existed, was long gone. Vietnam ended when I was 14 so we didn't really have much to protest about so we just partied instead.

But our predecessors, the 60's kids, seemed so wise and bold that we emulated them as much as we could. I thought I was a liberal till I was about 30 years old.

But now I see that I didn't have a clue about what was really going on during 'nam and the whole 60's thing that I once admired so much.

Alas, I now observe the same behavior in my son's generation (born 1986). They admire and emulate @ssholes like Moore because they are (for the most part) against what their parents believe, it gives you that "outlaw" feeling and chicks dig that and dammit, they seem so cool!

But most of them don't have much of any real understanding of whats really going on or even of exactly what is at stake.

Oh and by the way, these kids are now voting age and many of them will actually vote because MTV tells them they should.

[Trampled by Lambs]

I should add that until my late 20's, I thought being a liberal meant you stood for smoking a lot of weed and getting laid which was alright with me...

[qam1]

Alas, I now observe the same behavior in my son's generation (born 1986). They admire and emulate @ssholes like Moore because they are (for the most part) against what their parents believe, it gives you that "outlaw" feeling and chicks dig that and dammit, they seem so cool!

Not at all!!!

In fact the opposite. See It’s Morning After in America