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WillyT

(72,631 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2014, 02:43 AM Feb 2014

Do You Ever Wonder If Our Politics Are Still Fighting Over The 60's... [View all]

I know it's more complicated than that... yet it seems like that fight, whatever it was, was never resolved. And is still being fought... Even among Democrats.

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Do You Ever Wonder If Our Politics Are Still Fighting Over The 60's... [View all] WillyT Feb 2014 OP

Not quite, our politics is still fighting the 60's.. Fumesucker Feb 2014 #1

The 60s?! The right is trying to undo the New Deal. nt Deep13 Feb 2014 #2

True... But The PTB Were Definitely Challenged By The Ethos Of The 60's... WillyT Feb 2014 #4

The ethos of the 1960s may have been the reason for passage of the Great Society and merrily Feb 2014 #15

The left was demonstrating for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War. merrily Feb 2014 #21

I wish it were only the Right. merrily Feb 2014 #23

Just a few years ago, Newt Gingrich said that he wanted to destroy every remnant of the 60's... world wide wally Feb 2014 #3

He's by far not the only one. merrily Feb 2014 #16

Well... butterfly77 Feb 2014 #19

And that would solve America's problems? merrily Feb 2014 #22

Sounds good to me. butterfly77 Feb 2014 #24

Where I grew up in E. Washington State in the 60's, I knew the majority of 60's kids would�. Tikki Feb 2014 #5

I don't know anyone who was liberal in the 1960s and is now conservative. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #7

They acted out the 60's and then they became their parents. I could see it early and I knew... Tikki Feb 2014 #9

GAAAA! I'm living around a bunch of broken people. They were like me in the 60-70s? And now jtuck004 Feb 2014 #10

I am not sure many of the activists in the 1960s knew what they were up against. merrily Feb 2014 #17

Actually, they didn't. jeff47 Feb 2014 #25

this evening 2naSalit Feb 2014 #6

Just look at the postconvention election season in 2004 cemaphonic Feb 2014 #8

Thank goodness that had nothing to do with people who did not look European. merrily Feb 2014 #12

Which 60s? 1660s? 1760s? 1860s? Or 1960s? merrily Feb 2014 #11

Big money clamped down HARD on press freedom after the '60s. delrem Feb 2014 #13

Not only after the 1960s. Peter Zenger had a harder time than Ellsberg and the NYT. merrily Feb 2014 #18

For a surprisingly large segment of our population... vicman Feb 2014 #14

Something older and broader than the Civil War continues. merrily Feb 2014 #20

Yeah, there are some, not all, but some Caucasian men in this country who think that liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 #33

Yea ... the 1860s!!!! JoePhilly Feb 2014 #26

You beat me to it - TBF Feb 2014 #31

We are fighting over the New Deal, The New Fronter and upaloopa Feb 2014 #27

Big cultural events have ripple effects. randome Feb 2014 #28

The Revolution was not televised... malthaussen Feb 2014 #29

I've come full circle.. stillcool Feb 2014 #30

Some of the think tanks were designed to stop the progress of the 60s... polichick Feb 2014 #32

absolutely, this is Easy Rider all over again. Long hair vs always wrong tea party aholes. CK_John Feb 2014 #34