Posted on 11/22/2018 11:54:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Fifty years ago this year, the '60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology and politics.
The '60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to "normal."
But maybe the '60s, not the silent majority, won out after all. The world a half-century later looks a lot more like 1968 and what followed than what preceded it.
Most of the political and cultural agenda from that turbulent period -- both the advances and the regressions -- has long been institutionalized. The military draft, for good or bad, has remained defunct. There is greater transparency in politics, fewer smoke-filled rooms. Disabled children, once ostracized and/or dismissively labeled "retarded," are now far better integrated into society and treated more ethically as special-needs kids. The rights of women, minorities and the LGBT community are now widely accepted.
Yet lifestyles have been radically altered -- and often not for the good. Before the late '60s, most Americans married before having children; afterwards, not so much. One-parent households are now far more common.
Other legacies of the '60s include couples marrying later and having fewer children. A half-century later, these social inheritances often mean prolonged adolescence, older parents, delayed or nonexistent home ownership, and more emphasis on leisure time than on household chores.
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Tigers and Lions 13 and Bears 9 Oh My!
Tigers won the World Series in 68.
Hmmm. I was a little busy during that time frame.
Bears 16 now.
Already posted at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3707794/posts
The hippies wanted to change the world and they did - but not for the better.
How can they win while lying to themselves?
1968 was summed up in one sentence:
“A lot of guys joined the revolution just to get laid.”
That year was one of the most memorable for many, forgettable for me. According to what I see fifty years later the answer is yes.
Bkmk
Can’t Lions afford a decent helmet?
Or is that Nike doing?
16-16
It was killing our own unborn babies that did us in.
What truth and honor was there after that?
Many of the younger conservative advocates are calling them 68ers.
Before leaving office, Obama visited Communist Vietnam most likely to thank the Communists for making it possible for him to be elected President of the United states. For you see, without the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive, Obama would still be a Community Organizer and hanging out in Chicago bath houses, but the “Butterfly Effect” of the 1968 Tet Offensive made it possible for Barack Hussein Obama, a homosexual Muslim Communist, to be elected to the highest office in the land.
During the Vietnam War, the 1968 Tet Offensive resulted in the annihilation of Viet Cong units throughout South Vietnam and was a disaster for the Communist insurgency; it never recovered from its loses. This Tet Offensive was a coordinated “Do or Die” attack by every Viet Cong unit in South Vietnam on the night of January 30 and the morning of January 31, 1968 that simultaneously struck every South Vietnamese City, village, and military installation in an attempt to win the war in one country wide attack; they failed and they paid the price for their failure; they died.
The war was carried on after Tet 1968 by invading North Vietnamese, and North Vietnam could never move sufficient troops down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to ever hope to defeat the United States effort in South Vietnam, so they resorted to another Communist tactic; they lied.
1968 was a Presidential Election year in the United States, and the Communist Party USA attempted to use the Tet Offensive to influence the election by claiming it was a Communist victory and the war was lost. This American Communist Party organized an anti-war movement and assembled enough strength through this movement to seize control of the Democrat Party that summer during the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago.
These Communists attempted to nominate a Presidential candidate who would end the war and they failed, but the Communist Party USA still retained control of the Democrat Party, and this Party managed to elect enough Leftists to Congress to cut funding for the Vietnam War and the war was then lost, so in this way the 1968 Tet Offensive was indeed a Communist victory.
After using the Tet Offensive to gain control of the Democrat Party, the Communist Party USA never lost control of the Democrat Party, and when a few decades later they managed to elect an avowed Marxist Communist, Barack Hussein Obama, to the Presidency of the United States, it made the 1968 Tet Offensive the greatest Communist victory of all times.
There is virtually no question that the hedonistic decadence of widespread drug use, open homosexuality, pornography, fornication, slothful dependence, abortion, celebrity worship and agnosticism is now openly embraced by a near majority of the American population. Elections reflect this cultural reality. Its sad but it is what it is.
In France, the term was “Soixante-Huitards”.
But I prefer “Soixante-Retards”, myself.
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