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PlanetBev

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44. I sorely miss those times.

Reply to Roy Rolling (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 02:47 PM

Jul 2013

At 62, watching the ascendancy of the Right has been torture for me. These people were on the fringe when I was coming up, now they've been mainstreamed.

Someday, sanity will reign again, but not until the damage done by the Right is complete. By then, the US will be completely unrecognizable.

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Where have all the flower (children) gone? [View all] Roy Rolling Jul 2013 OP

Ask Mr. Natural! He knows everything. postulater Jul 2013 #1

And don't forget: Rhiannon12866 Jul 2013 #2

Icons of my childhood. LWolf Jul 2013 #28

Mine, too. Rhiannon12866 Jul 2013 #38

My remembrance when Travers passed: LWolf Jul 2013 #40

Thank you! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2013 #41

Didn't they become Reagan Democrats/neo cons/libertarians? alp227 Jul 2013 #3

Um, no. Le Taz Hot Jul 2013 #4

Isn't Mike Malloy a Republican? Bluenorthwest Jul 2013 #5

Isn't Mike Malloy a Republican? dusty trails Jul 2013 #6

No, I am here and I am to the left of most of this board. nt Mojorabbit Jul 2013 #16

blame it on needing a paycheck datasuspect Jul 2013 #31

I think they became the "me" generation....looking out for number one. shraby Jul 2013 #7

BS pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #8

Yuppies loyalsister Jul 2013 #9

No they didn't. That was merely the right wing meme that you swallowed hook line and sinker. Enthusiast Jul 2013 #20

They became? burnodo Jul 2013 #22

I don't know where you guys get this idea. Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #42

Well, sort of. Waiting For Everyman Jul 2013 #10

Busy, trying to stay alive, TheJames Jul 2013 #11

Welcome to DU, TheJames! calimary Jul 2013 #17

+ 1 ^ yesphan Jul 2013 #27

Greetings! PasadenaTrudy Jul 2013 #34

Right on! calimary Jul 2013 #37

Me too. Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #43

I believe one reason is really simple The Straight Story Jul 2013 #12

Not usually on television or radio except as caricatures. hunter Jul 2013 #13

45 years later RobertEarl Jul 2013 #14

Did someone say protest songs? Zorra Jul 2013 #15

I think Niel Young wrote a song about it Douglas Carpenter Jul 2013 #18

Nice song. Enthusiast Jul 2013 #21

Still marching burrowowl Jul 2013 #19

Occupy Wall Street B Calm Jul 2013 #23

If it's too loud, you're too old Recursion Jul 2013 #24

Fat Freddy's Cat says that they're still MineralMan Jul 2013 #25

Freak Brothers! PasadenaTrudy Jul 2013 #35

Yup. I have complete sets of all of them, MineralMan Jul 2013 #36

Card-carrying freak here. riqster Jul 2013 #26

they started having kids in the early/mid 70s datasuspect Jul 2013 #29

They got PS3 snooper2 Jul 2013 #30

We grew up. UTUSN Jul 2013 #32

Not me. I never grew up. leftyladyfrommo Jul 2013 #33

Today they are doting grand parents.eom Cleita Jul 2013 #39

Trying to keep the grandchildren's minds open. Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #45

I sorely miss those times. PlanetBev Jul 2013 #44

They were fringe. Isn't that the truth. We used to laugh Cleita Jul 2013 #46

Five movements cames together in a Perfect Storm of the 60s: PufPuf23 Jul 2013 #47

... Scuba Jul 2013 #48