jasonnfree
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Do we really need a thread about the difference between the 60's and today?
Do you need to waste our time stopping by a thread you're not interested in so you can take up space with a stupid post?
A lot has changed since the 60s and not all for the better. That was a time when kids actually learned things in school or they were lectured by parents and teachers.
Of course, the hippie age and drugs turned people into mellow, anti-war, anti-establishment potheads.
Now, we have kids who are spoonfed propaganda with their free lunches. Anyone who does pay attention and protests against the government, like the tea party, gets bashed by the media and government. Only those launching protests to support the rhetoric of the administration get praise even if they don't deserve it, like the Occupoopers did.
In the 60s, no one would have gotten away with saying the majority of school children are starving and grossly overweight at the same time. Common sense was more prevalent then. No one was demanding free shit and those temporarily on welfare hoped they could keep that a secret until they were on their feet again. And they actually tried.
The left is impressed with vulgarity, like Miley's performances, and disgusted by the site of a family praying at the dinner table. Many things have changed.
I miss the 60s.
You miss the moral fabric that existed then - when construction workers would leave their jobs to beat the hell out of protesting hippies - just for the hell of it. Remember the phrase: America - Love It or Leave It.
Funny, as an old man of 69 - I STILL live by that credo ..
The moral fabric that existed then, bullies beating up protesters? What about all those grand words you quoted in a previous post: When in the Course of human events etc. Americans went through a protest phase back in the beginning of the country. I see what side you would've been on. You would've been on the side of the British and probably would have snitched on the rebel's wherabouts to the British soldiers because you don't believe in dissent or questioning authority. Many conservatives don't either, but then they fill up these forums with posts trying to separate themselves from Hitler and his nazi thugs who would have been at the forefront of beating up those protesting hippies. How sad, 69 years old and you still don't understand what America and freedom is all about.