Posted on 10/09/2011 9:11:13 PM PDT by Niuhuru
Most Americans have little to no idea of what's going on in Gotham City the past couple weeks....well-organized anti-capitalism street theater now spreading to cities across the fruited plain.
Obama has endorsed this commie-sponsored takeover of parks and streets in NYC . The U.S. state-controlled media therefore will show very little of the current chaos because it will make the president look bad.
Of course, we can count on the leftist TV media to run any and all video clips that show, for instance, the brutal "pigs" flipping a resisting "student" to the hard cement....face down.
Leni
Leni
The difference might be that you never had your picture taken during any of those wild times, or had it broadcast to the entire world, in full color, almost instantly. It’s not that the activities indulged in render the indulgees unfit, but rather the notoriety that will accompany them because they were unwise enough to engage in their wild times in a very, very public place, during the day time, and in front of the cameras.
Yes, but the roots of this go back further than that. The participants and their uncivil behavior are reminiscent of some of the hippie types of the 1960s and early 1970s, who staged similar protests sparked by opposition to the US pursual of the Vietnam War. Sometimes those mass gatherings, such as Woodstock, had no apparent political motivation. I would bet that many of today's younger participants are children of parents who engaged in those earlier events.
These protests are also manifestation of a communist movement (under a variety of names) in the United States, which, contrary to what the MSM would have us believe, never ceased to exist from its inception about 1920.
Moonbattery at it’s best!
You used to get arrested for doing this sh*t in public.
BINGO, and don’t need to, I lived with it. Had to teach my youngest to read and do math, as they were to busy with social agenda’s. Of course it took a little help from the hand applied to the back side a few times. He was one stubborn kid, and hated school from day 1.
It is worse with my grandson.
Don’t forget Holywierd’s roll in all this. I noticed a huge drop in manners, attitude, and speech since my youngest who is 30 now, over today’s cartoons. All they teach is bad manners, bad attitudes, and rudeness plus all the PC green crap.
Just the opposite, for the most part, as the interviews with participants in these demonstrations indicate. Too many of them lack the intellectual capability to express a coherent thought. They are attracted to the event like a bunch of ants to a morsel of food accidentally dropped on the floor.
Please see my post # 65.
EYE-talian? No, he’s a Wopahoe!
“When Hewlett-Packard recently fired chief executive Leo Apotheker after 11 months with a $13 million severance package, the disconnect between pay and performance was especially astonishing.”
When things like this happen, it undermines confidence in the free market. Many banks made loans to people who didn’t have the collateral to back it up. Bank of America even made loans to illegal aliens without bothering to check their citizenship status, then sought federal aid when so many of them abondoned their homes without continuing to pay for them. Just as many complain about uneserving poor who get Federal aid, others also rail against the undeserving rich. These people mismanage companies, play craps with other peoples’ money, and get lavish pay and perks that they didn’t earn. Then their companies get bailed out by the taxpayers when they get into trouble after holding their employees and shareholders hostage. They seem to live by their own rules, which are very different from the rules that apply to everyone else. We condemn liberals for refusing to say no to irresponsible welfare recipients, so why not say no to people like this?
I would disagree. My parents were the Woodstock generation and those folks traditionally vote right wing. Most of these punks are college aged. That puts their parents growing up during Reagan. I am not sure any correlation to these dopes parents upbringing and these protest their in which are amounting to social gatherings.
More like grasshoppers.
Of course, someone could be of the "Woodstock generation" and not have been connected at all to any of the antiwar or cultural revolution events that occurred during that era. But of those in that generation that were connected to or supported those events, I would bet that the majority of them, if they are still around today, would still be on the left. Just think of William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn and Tom Hayden and Mark Rudd. Relatively few of the young leftists from back then have made a complete turnaround to "right wing", though a lot of them have "mainstreamed" themselves to obtain influential positions in American society, notably in academia and in Democratic Party politics.
Your mistake is thinking that a lot of baby boomers were involved with the counter culture. It was not. If you go through voting histories, you will find the Boomers overwhelmingly voted for Nixon both times. They have been a reliable GOP voting block. Just look around at who populates your average Tea Party Rally.
These fake left wing protest over the last couple years has demonstrated one thing. They are small in numbers. The 10/2 rally, WI rallies and this joke on Wall Street. There are 2000 protesters last I heard in NYC. Last week the Black Eyed Peas had 30,000 at a concert. They can’t even outdo a hacky pop band.
My connection to "Woodstock" is that when I was driving up to Saratoga for the horse races that weekend I saw all sorts of people hitchhiking along the Mass Pike and I sort of wondered what was going on.
In the year following there were several attempts to recreate "Woodstock." One was at a ski area near Middletown, CT. I was working in Hartford at the time. I told guys in my group that I had been down there the night before, and it was just unbelievable;" folks were "doing it" on top of little VW buses. (I was making this up entirely.) One of the guys was so excited that he couldn't wait for 5 PM so he could drive down there and take pictures. I think he asked me three or four times during the day for even more graphic descriptions. And then the next day he came in rather disappointed, but he still was probing me for details. I'm still not sure if he knows I lied.
ML/NJ
“...the brutal ‘pigs’ flipping a resisting ‘student’ to the hard cement....face down.”
Leni? When you find and post those, please ping me. I need something positive to cheer me up today, LOL! :)
All ready working on that. She has applied for a music college, if accepted my baby and her mother will head for college after her junior year. Mom is stricter than me.
In 1968 (Nixon vs. Humphrey vs. Wallace), with the voting age still at 21, only the very early Baby Boomers (those born before or in November 1947) could have voted at all, so the "Boomer vote" was probably too small across the board to make any conclusions.
In 1972 (Nixon vs. McGovern), with the voting age changed to 18, most Boomers voted for the first time. I haven't seen the numbers, but since Nixon won by close to 60% of the popular vote overall, I'd guess that Nixon did win a majority of Boomers, but a smaller majority than the he won among the general population.
You have to remember that in 1972 Nixon had previously been unpopular on college campuses where many of the Boomers were or recently had been. But he helped to mitigate that campus unrest problem by instituting a draft lottery as a step toward an all-volunteer military, and by moving toward "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam war.
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