1960S PAYBACK

NewsMax.com ^ | Sunday, July 28, 2002 | John LeBoutillier

[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.

[M 91 u2 K]

I am sick and tired of all these shows and movies made about the 60's which show the 60's as the decade that changed America for the better. The 60's, 70's, and 90's were the worst decades in American history

[capt. norm]

Ooops! I thought it said "1960 Playback".

I was gonna stay and watch.

[Draakan]

This Post is not politically correct. LOL!

[Lokibob]

"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.

[NormsRevenge]

Nikita Sergeyevich KHRUSHCHEV said it best .. "We Will Bury You!!!"

Abandoning the idea of a violent world revolution, Khrushchev announced a new principle of peaceful coexistence and competition with capitalist countries.

For more then 50 years, the Enemies Without in the first 50 years of the 20th century have been working as the Enemy Within the open society we so love and cherish. They have infiltrated our institutions and haved sought to strike them down by knocking out the pillars of morality and equality and are rapidly preparing to shatter the pillar of freedom.

Decadence breeds decadence ... see ClinTon , Rubin in the dictionary .. Shameless .. No .. Capitalists? No .. They look like some of Nikita's Kidz to me.

[NormsRevenge]

[Captainpaintball]

When I was 11 or 12, I was surprised when I found out my parents were never hippies, and shocked when I found out not everyone their age protested the war. The way the media portrays that era, you'd think everyone had long hair, wore beads, and marched for "peace". Or was it "piece"?

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.

[RobRoy]

I'm one of those like your parents. I tell people that if you could have one thing that could encompass the sillyness and stupidity of the whole '60's thing, it would be a copy of the movie "Woodstock," which I own. It shows the whole thing for what it is. And the more time that passes, the more narcissistic, selfish and irresponsible my generation looks.

But like Rush Limbaugh, I thought it was stupid at the time. We weren't all brainwashed.

[Maceman]

The 60's, 70's, and 90's were the worst decades in American history

The teens and '30s weren't so great for America either.

[jae471]

1860s also.

[genefromjersey]

You'll get no quarrel from me !
People think I'm crazy ( and maybe I am ), but the Sixties was a time of HATE : racial hate-disguised as a struggle for racial equity; hatred of the armed forces; hatred of democracy ; hatred of society ; hatred of religion and/or morality ; hatred of the "work ethic" ; hatred of those who struggled to rise above the norm.

[LisaFab]

I have to respectfully disagree with you about the '30's. My parents grew up in the '30's and, although they were poor, they both said that spiritually, they were the best of times.

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.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe so. But I'll bet that if you had never turned on the television or read a newspaper in the 1960s, and never turned on the television or read a newspaper in 2002, you'd never be able to tell how one era differed from the other.

What this says, really, is that most of the "defining moments" of an era were nothing more than manufactured stories.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

60's payback?

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

[genefromjersey]

Perhaps...

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.

[gcruse]

What a mess the 1960s were!

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."

[dix]

I don't know where to start. The 60's didn't start for me until 1965 when I was eighteen, and I was totally taken in by the whole cultural,political, music, and drug thing. That means I had eighteen years of a solid upbringing. I had a great foundation, even though I bought into the above mentioned ideas. It was a new day. There were no rules. Everything was ok. The article is dead on about Viet Nam protests, and the protest stopped when the draft stopped.. It was all about being selfish baby boomers. The first time in history that young men en masse refused to serve. Quite something to be proud of. It is my opinion that my generation is responsible for maybe ruining the country, and I have spent twenty years trying to atone for my part. That is one of the reasons I FReep. Oh, by the way, I came to my senses about the time The Gipper rode into town, because like your parents, my early upbringing begin to surface.

[Maceman]

I have to respectfully disagree with you about the '30's. My parents grew up in the '30's and, although they were poor, they both said that spiritually, they were the best of times.

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Have to agree. I think I "came to" when I figured out Jimmy Carter was the problem and the Gipper was the solution.

[redhead]

"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."

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.