Posted on 05/25/2004 7:36:40 AM PDT by qam1
why no war protests?? because american idol is on. Also protest marchers are busy going to gay weddings
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Ribuffo says American university students today are far different from students of the 1960s and early '70s. A generation ago they were, for the most part, politically motivated and driven. Today's students, he says, are more materialistic and less concerned with geopolitical issues.
The pathetic “our hippies were better than your hippies” argument, from self-righteous baby-boomer idiots.
We're doing better with less hippies, thank you very much.
Damn, I can smell the BO and pachouli from here.
Wonder how many of them are now wearing plaid sports jackets, with bad comb-overs and selling vinyl siding?
"The pathetic “our hippies were better than your hippies” argument..."
Missing from much of the 60's anti-war discussion is the fact that a great many who demonstrated were out to PARTY. They were there to flaunt their "sexual liberation" and drug use. Today's 6th grader can get his ADD drugs and many others, plus his own condom stash, with adult approval. Why protest?
It only seems like it's hotly debated because everyone on the Upper East Side is against the war.
During the blackout in eight northeast states last year, a New York Times headline read "A Nation Blacked Out." That should give you a sense of their perspective on the political landscape of the country.
Maybe there's so few poorly attended protests is because most of the country supports the liberation of Iraq, but that explanation would never cross their minds.
Who needs anti-american hippies to protest?
We have United States Senators, United States Congressmen and women, United States elites; Kerry, the network media in NY,DC, and of course Hollywood, saddling up to the Islamic Cults.
Do today's traitors check to Kerry, Moore, Chomsky, Fidel, Bono, Madonna or one of the classic thinkers like Franking. All they know is that McAuliffe and MTV told them to hate Bush.
The answer is very simple...almost too simple, really. There are fewer anti-war protests because there is no military draft. Period. When the draft ended late in December, 1972, organized opposition to the war virtually disappeared. Today's young people only go to war if they volunteer for it. Big difference.
No you see the media has for the last decade ignored huge Pro-life protests while writing articles about why the young are not protesting enough to satisfy the media. The problem is that at least some of the young are protesting for Life or other issues the media does not like and thus DOES NOT COUNT.
Also, the Gulf of Tonkin doesn't come close to 9/11.
Is that the Hildebeast in the front row?
The difference is, of course, the draft. There is no draft on, thus the number of people willing to work for America's defeat will be far less.
Absolutely true. The draft was what did it for us. When we knew that Johnson didn't want to win that war, even patriots demonstrated.
Wow, how condescending of him. You see? You Gen-X'ers aren't as "smart" as Ribuffo and his fellow hippy-dippy Baby Boomers who passed the joint while demonstrating against "the man". Watch out, Ribuffo, your Liberalism is showing. Sheesh.
Of course, Bubba wouldn't be in that photo, he would have been back in the tee-pee lecturing a few choice "sweet thangs" on the virtues of "spin the bottle"
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