Posted on 10/21/2009 10:31:27 AM PDT by RandReagan
Winston Churchill is often misattributed to the quote "If you're not a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 40, you have no head." I believe these words from Sir Churchill, a leading figure of Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation, quite ironically sum up the generation that was to succeed him in history (the baby-boomers), had he actually been the one to have said it of course.
The idealistic hippies of the 60’s fought for change to bring about a society so open-minded it could accept everything and everyone, but now the Teabaggers of the Present fight against change to provide only for themselves and their own vision of the world.
From the path of young Communists to aging Objectivists, this group has essentially become a mix of the worst parts of their parents’ generation and the generation they were in their youth. They kept the passion of the 60’s and combined it with the irrational fear of change from the 50’s.
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“...and challenging the establishment.
The conservative VERSION of the hippie.”
So that’s the standard? Both challenged things? Both protested? I guess I’m like a bear, as well, because we both have teeth.
We have to move away from this romanticization of the hippie. He is not the only historical rebel, and not even a very good rebel at that. Turned establishment in the blink of an eye.
So that’s the standard? Both challenged things? Both protested?
Sure. One side has had a monopoly on the protest.
Now the tables have turned.
It’s not that difficult to understand.
“One side has had a monopoly on the protest.”
No they haven’t. They never did. No reason to pretend that’s the way it was just because they keep telling us via all their retrospective documentaries and manipulative dramatizations.
I guess I’m like a bear, as well, because we both have teeth.
One fires a weapon for freedom.
One fires a weapon for collectivism.
It’s still a weapon.
No reason to pretend that’s the way it was just because they keep telling us via all their retrospective documentaries and manipulative dramatizations.
The hippie liberal believes this whether it be true or not. The hippie liberal is now having to take a big drink of conservative protest.
Whether, it be pure propaganda, or not, the left has USED this tactic for years and now are getting a taste of their own medicine.
I guess I’m like a bear, as well, because we both have teeth.
One fires a weapon for collectivism.
It’s still a weapon.
I sent Joel a reply urging him to read “The Road to Serfdom” and “Liberal Fascism.” It’s clear that most conservative-haters like Joel have absolutely no idea what modern conservatism is about. In short, they’re pathetically ignorant. No use getting too mad at them, as you would not get too mad at a child because he doesn’t understand why he has to obey the rules. Explain the rules in a moderate voice, so the child can understand.
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