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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)and...I was not a Hippie in the 60's...but (where I was was dealing with noticing and dealing with it at an Academic Institution) living through that time and seeing the changes for positive that weren't apparent because the MSM just did the NOISE...with the Drugs, Flowers and the Rest...when one lived through it...the changes were important that happened and the "NOISE" obscured much of it....but the "NOISE" did, in a way, call attention that folks couldn't deny.
So....I well understand what you say...but in my view "from the bridge" that makes me think that some good will come out of turmoil once it's processed and that CHANGE doesn't come without some attention by those who need their voices heard.
I was really just hoping to ask you Not to Give Up on Hope.... I just think we might build on some of the Positive Changes the 60's Movement made going forward building on Environmental Movement, Food Safety, Right of People to decide whether they are Fracked or are forced to eat Monsanto, DuPont and the rests GM and Pesticide ridden food and the rights of us to have access to CLEAN WATER and Cleaner AIR WE BREATH, OCEANS free of OVERFISHING and POLUTION, plus over our PRIVATE LIVES through affirmative LEGISLATION PROTECTING (and reinstating) our BILL OF RIGHTS that Protects those RIGHTS..from NSA Collecting every bit of our Personal Data and even Rights to Vote and how our Vote is Counted along with Access to Voting.......and so much more.
That's where I go back to the 60's that wasn't about Hippies on Drugs bombing things and making a mess with their altruistic ambitions. It was much more than that....because that's all the MSM wanted to report.