For more on the relationship between leftist politics and the 60s counterculture, see Thomas M. Frank's landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. This is a damning indictment of the media-industrial complex and Frank's status as a major liberal only enhances the credibility of this particular message. That message, supported by some remarkable documentation, is that the 60s counteculture was largely an invention of the advertising industry, not an authentic social movement. He also documents the crucial role of radical political memes in the counterculture, and maintains that the counterculture remains the chief influence on the internal culture of the mass media to this day. In short, the left as we know it today is little more than an advertising gimmick run amok.
Mr. Wouldnt was just saying this very thing the other day!
Far be it from me to even seem to be in the position of defending lefty moonbats, but this op-ed is, er, a bit over the top itself. Which goes to show that moonbatism plays no ideological favorites.
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"In their heart of hearts, lefty loonies do want America to lose in Iraq and every military theater. They want outside enemies to accomplish quickly the demolition of American capitalism, using the violence the lefty loonies are too old, too scared and too well-invested to use."
Yes, they do. They hate America and the Constitution (more importantly, although they love to use it to their advantage). They are commies who if they thought they had the physical advantage, wouldn't hesitate to suddenly LOVE the Military which they'd use for their benefit to suppress those who are not commies.
That they hate it is shown if you ask this question, which is an essential question in a war against terrorist fanatics:
Who is better?
AMERICA is better. Hence, it is the 1 to defend. But hippies won't be able to say that.