Liberal Hippies?

[Gamey]

Speaking of hippies, I usually don't engage family members who perceive me as "being on the other side" (pretty much all of them), but the other day, my rabid GOoPy BIL made a reference to "all those hippie liberals collecting entitlements."

Say what? Since he is slightly older than I, I asked him if he thought the hippies of our early years (the 70's) were liberals. Of course he agreed.

I reminded him how they despised any government influence whatsoever in their lives then asked him how that made them liberals.

It was the end of the "discussion."

After I reminded him his non-response has aided the loss of an entire generation.

[Fumesucker]

1. Well played sir..

Although I do not grok in fullness your last sentence.

[sunwyn]

9. I grok

[RKP5637]

2. And probably the loss of future generations. I think it's going to take several

generations to dig out of this. In the meantime, the US is failing on just about all cylinders as the leaders of the world. China and India will take the lead in R&D and 21st century technology. The US will be serving burgers and working at Walmart.

The US might never catch up, or for a very very long time. US had a good run of it after WWII with no competition, now other countries will be roaring past the US, and asses like RW republicans and greedy capitalists have totally fucked over America.

Much of the US will eventually be roaming the streets in poverty IMO.

[Mimosa]

3. It didn't have to be this way. But we were sold out.

Americans have been sold out by elected representatives who serve the interests of multinational corporations.

And the people become more apathetic when it increasingly seems TPTB do what they wish.

[RKP5637]

5. I well remember growing up with many opportunities, and you really had to work

hard to not have some type of job. We were talking here the other day, people do not matter in the US anymore. It's now all about bottom line profit for those holding the reigns, the cornered wealth, and people in the US are in the way.

Frankly, and I'm serious, many of TPTB would just as soon see Americans die off and be out of the way. The US is just a place to hang a hat, money can be made globally using whomever they want. I view these people as unpatriotic and terrorists to the American way of trying to have a quality life.

I don't know where it's headed but something has to change. Otherwise, this country is going to be a very miserable place to be in the 21st century.

[notesdev]

7. We need our own support systems

Since TPTB couldn't care less if we all starved and died, it's up to us to provide for each other, outside the system that works for none of us.

[RKP5637]

10. There really needs to be a movement to dump the main system and do our own. Hopefully,

more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that this country is no longer about people, so we need to cast aside the current system and do our own.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Raytheon. Lockheed Martin. The DEA. The Teabaggers on their medicare-funded Rascals.

Hippies, I tells ya!

[ErikJ]

6. I know a VERY RW long haired vet

who calls himself Hippie. Ironic since the GOP wants to privatize the Vet hospitals and care.

[SoCalDem]

8. The word "liberal" has had many "liberties" taken with it

I have always seen "liberal" as being generous and open-minded

Unfortunately all politics is oppositional, and whichever group ends up in power, immediately sets out to demonize the ones OUT of power:(

We tend to view our politics as party/ideology driven, but it's really cultural/generational.

At the core, we are still a cultish/tribal society, hellbent on excluding "the other", whomever they may be at any particular time..