A Global Ban on Left-Wing Politics

[Curmudgeoness]

26. Well, maybe I am delusional.

All that LSD during my formative years, ya know. But I am cognizant enough to know that arguing with you on this will be the same as a debate with the Tea Party. But I will tell you that many of your listed heroes were supported by our generation. We stood beside the blacks against segregation, we stood beside Chavez and many others fighting for justice. We fought for birth control and rights for women. Why do you think that you don't have to worry about being drafted and sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? We shed light on the unfairness of the draft. And there were little things, like how women do not have to wear dresses to work and school anymore. Do you know that we had to fight that little battle, going in to school wearing pants, getting sent home to change, over and over, until they gave up.

The Conservative revolution came about due to circumstances and the failure of the Carter Administration to stem inflation, lower interest rates, and correct the economy. People were scared shitless by gasoline rationing and interest rates sky high. None of this was a result of hippies.

The hippies and the counterculture made a lot of small contributions to your life, but you don't want to see it. You talk like the hippie movement was a bunch of entitled white kids, but you should know that it was actually a working class movement. Most of us were lower and lower-middle income kids. Our fathers worked in the mills. Our mothers were able to stay home because the union jobs paid enough for our fathers to support the family. And we appreciated it.

We also had the best music ever.