Posted on 07/29/2002 9:00:10 AM PDT by M 91 u2 K
Liberals longingly look back on the 1960s as the "best decade ever!"
These lefties remember that period for their 'icons of the left': JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., RFK and their all-time favorite, the anti-war protester.
Almost 40 years later, the 1960s leftists now steeped in the politically correct have infected our society at every level.
The widespread corporate corruption dominating the news is a direct result of '60s liberalism.
Let me explain:
Back in the mid-to-late 1960s, our social fabric began to unravel. With Vietnam as a background, the educated, white, upper middle class totally abandoned traditional values and morality. Suddenly everything that had been judged 'bad' was acceptable and everything that had been traditional was suddenly rejected as 'too old-fashioned.'
Thus we had the following: children hating their parents and getting away with it. Leftist parents, afraid of the wrath of their suddenly empowered rebellious children, caving in and trying to be "friends" with their kids. Discipline went out the door and the predictable results of despicable conduct soon followed.
Drugs soon became one of the staples of this rebellion. LSD and marijuana were the two most prevalent. Often these accommodating parents actually used these drugs with their children!
Sex, too, radically changed. With the advent of the Pill we suddenly saw the 'free sex' movement take hold all over the nation. Sex without love was the new 'way of life.' Commitment even love went by the boards.
And, of course, there was Vietnam and the draft. Don't fool yourselves: The intensity of the anti-war movement stemmed directly from the fear of being drafted and sent to the war. All the highfalutin talk about the 'moral consequences' of the American war against the North Vietnamese Communists was pure bunk. These protesters were simply afraid of getting killed!
Using their numerical power and connections and the hypocritical liberal Democrats then running the Congress and the White House, these so-called liberals created a deferment system that protected upper-middle-class whites and allowed poor black men to die in their place. And yet these lefties claim to "care about minorities"? Hello?
What a mess the 1960s were!
Out of that mess came the following:
1) A generation of liars. The children of the 1960s are the very people running our corporations today. Their upbringing or lack thereof is exactly why these CEOs and CFOs happily lie, alter the books and steal. After all, they were raised in the "anything goes" era.
2) A sex-obsessed society. The 'free sex' movement of the 1960s "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" has now taken over our lives. Everything is about sex. TV commercials, movies, books, magazines are all premised on a public hungry for more and more sex. Of course, this leads to extramarital affairs and the lies necessary to sustain such behavior. No wonder the divorce rate is over 50 percent. And no wonder so many people happily accepted Bill Clinton's Oval Office escapades.
3) A heavily drugged-out society. Drug use both illegal and prescribed has never been higher. We are medicated out of our minds! A child has lots of extra energy perhaps as the result of a selfish parent and what do we do? Ply him with Ritalin. Someone is sad or unhappy and what do we do? Load him or her up with Prozac.
Twenty-five years ago doctors were prescribing Valium like it was aspirin. The result? Millions of addicted users of a drug that we later learned was harder to stop using that heroin. (This is a fact. One can go 'cold turkey' from heroin, but not Valium. It has to be a gradual reduction 5 percent every 3 days. And during this period the user is paranoid and schizophrenic.) Today Valium is regulated by the DEA. How do we know that in another 10 or 20 years we won't discover similarly awful effects from drugs that are acceptable today?
And illegal drugs especially cocaine, dope and date-rape drugs like Ecstasy are more prevalent than ever.
4) A society that has lost its moral compass. Indeed, there is no leadership in this country today. The president switches back and forth on everything. One day he's against the 'corporate cheating' bill and the next, when his poll numbers sink, he's happy to sign it. Same for John Walker Lindh. One day Bush called him a "poor fella" and the next he directs the full force of the Justice Department against him.
America is in a pickle. And it comes from the amorality of 1960s PC liberalism.
We have to fight back bit by bit and argument by argument until the good values that made America great are once again dominant.
I was gonna stay and watch.
"2) A sex-obsessed society. The 'free sex' movement of the 1960s "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" has now taken over our lives. Everything is about sex. TV commercials, movies, books, magazines are all premised on a public hungry for more and more sex. Of course, this leads to extramarital affairs and the lies necessary to sustain such behavior. No wonder the divorce rate is over 50 percent. And no wonder so many people happily accepted Bill Clinton's Oval Office escapades. "
AIDS is proof that we lost the sexual revolution.
I was sort of disappointed at the time, but it didn't take long for me to realize that people like my mom and dad were the important ones. They were the ones who served in the military, they had jobs, they were starting families and passing on their values and beliefs... And they were, unlike their dirty, hairy counterparts, actually doing something positive for their country.
The teens and '30s weren't so great for America either.
It's no accident that the children 'nourished' by the Depression grew up to fight and win WWII. Also, ironically, many were the parents of the hippies of the '60's. It is my opinion that most of them were simply worn out.
What this says, really, is that most of the "defining moments" of an era were nothing more than manufactured stories.
We're already suffering through that! All those baby-boomers had kids...and the kids are worse than there parents ever were!
Not to mention the fact that the whole 60's mentality has been excitedly accepted into education, media, family life, and politics. Just about every fabric in American society...we've haven't recovered from it...and its only getting worse. About the only thing that I see changing it anytime soon is a major war and/or another depression.
Things were so much better back then! /sarcasm off
I was there during the Newark riots;
There during some of the phoney "peace marches" in NYC;
There when college professors, who were self-avowed communists, stirred up campus riots;
There when some of the left wingers of the Democratic Party began stealing the party away from its previously somewhat-conservative Membership.
I am part of the Late Forties/Early Fifties Generation, and saw a lot of this crap up close and personal.
To a right-winger, I suppose.
I had a great time in the 60s.
To a left-winger, I imagine
the 1990s will go down as
a mess.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
America is in a pickle
Paraphrasing Dorothy Parker,
"Some people seem to
have been weaned on pickles."
Maybe so, but the '30s also gave us the New Deal and changed to our everlasting detriment the basic relationship between the American people and their government, as well as the assumptions about what the proper role of government is.
This, of course, was immediately followed by situation ethics, "If it feels good, do it," and stupid social workers who were convinced that every parental spanking was a beating and every beating was attempted murder, giving these spoiled brats another way to destroy the structure of a family. All the kids had to do was report their parents for a spanking and the parents could be arrested.
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