It is ironic that the 60s generation would, in their old age, be the very antithesis of that. Who knew that the liberals of the 1960s would end up being all about big intrusive government, censoring free speech, controlling the media and hating everything about freedom.
I'm talking collectively of course, not about you individually.
“Who knew that the liberals of the 1960s would end up being all about big intrusive government, censoring free speech, controlling the media and hating everything about freedom.”
As their parents’ generation died off, these liberals/leftists came into their inheritances - received from family and in moving up the corporate and governmental positions of power. For reasons related to their moral decay (including the rejection of Judeo-Christian beliefs and ethics), having been placed in positions of trust, they tasted the power...the power to “change the world” in ways they only talked about in college, some while puffing on, or dropping, or injecting their recreational mind-altering substances. Later in life, with the power to rewrite public morality and laws to their own, it was necessary that the ends justify the means to do it, corruption of our institutions was inevitable. Mine is a high level generalization. When large numbers of people reject the principles of morality and law upon which the country was founded, and are in positions to replace it with something that is the antithesis - it is not surprising to see the 60s generation to be the antithesis. They after all have succumbed to a base human nature unconstrained by sound moral principles.
I think a lot of that 60s generation got it into their head that no harm should ever come to anyone, that everyone’s opinion was just as valid as the next person’s, that everyone no matter how lazy or drug-addicted should be taken care of, and nobody should ever be offended. And they now see the government as the only way to fulfill their ridiculous manifesto.
I’m talking collectively of course, not about you individually.
Of course....The problem is that Liberalism with a big L no longer exists. It was replaced with Post Modernism Marxism. Look, Trump could be considered a JFK Democrat....good, bad, we’ll see. But for today’s modern “left” it is aoubt power and not what is good for the country...