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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:10 AM

Jul 2015

How much of the vote for Nixon in 1968 and 1972 was a vote against the counter culture and how much was because Nixon was so charismatic and likeable?

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What we need is a new hippie-like counterculture movement! [View all] Emelina Jul 2015 OP

You're going to have to tear an awful lot of people bvf Jul 2015 #1

We had one with occupy but they were rainy Jul 2015 #2

In a sense, but I mean a movement that combines self-sufficiency with social responsibility. Emelina Jul 2015 #4

Occupy romanic Jul 2015 #45

Really? Sanity Claws Jul 2015 #46

I never denied that. romanic Jul 2015 #49

there were issues with Woodstock too DonCoquixote Jul 2015 #60

It would be great! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2015 #3

Step one - buy local as much as possible, step 2 go organic, step 3 turn off the TV. Emelina Jul 2015 #5

It can be done. This is the latest bounty from my gardens and my free range chickens. cwydro Jul 2015 #14

Step one is turn off the TV, I think. hunter Jul 2015 #32

Except NobodyHere Jul 2015 #36

IF anyone spotted ME, *they* would be arrested for trespassing... Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #69

Skyclad ceremonies are better than TV addiction. ;) Emelina Jul 2015 #72

Are you saying the hippie movement brought awareness to sustainability? brooklynite Jul 2015 #6

There are still co-ops and farmer's markets where I live... Emelina Jul 2015 #7

That would be a very jaundiced view. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #24

My point is they withdrew from the world around them, rather than try to improve it for everyone brooklynite Jul 2015 #27

Sometimes the best way to help Sanity Claws Jul 2015 #47

Gandhi: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #48

What "WITHDRAW" just us Jul 2015 #52

The movement was a mixed bag. kenfrequed Jul 2015 #28

More like trying to save the dying planet that rich capitalist imperialists Zorra Jul 2015 #33

No. You can't change the world by simply reusing parts of your past. Nostalgia is not a weapon. randome Jul 2015 #8

I cringe every time I see something about "hippies" sufrommich Jul 2015 #9

Moreover it actually encourages the wrong things kenfrequed Jul 2015 #29

"No" is a little broad-brush. bigmonkey Jul 2015 #20

"Thought and engagement". randome Jul 2015 #35

No offense but your view is strictly mainstream straight male....Stonewall was 1969 and like the Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #61

"Nostaglia" may Not be fredamae Jul 2015 #56

What is interesting about the 1960s is the development of the Group Mind through the use of Hestia Jul 2015 #10

Wasn't the CIA involved in mainstreaming LSD? Emelina Jul 2015 #12

Check out the new book "Acid Hype" for who mainstreamed LSD. It wasn't the CIA. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #25

I don't think group mind-level consciousness works like that. Warren DeMontague Jul 2015 #50

Michael Cross from Unlock the Door Radio? Seriously, he and others like him is why the counter Monk06 Jul 2015 #11

Abbie Hoffman died swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor. former9thward Jul 2015 #30

He was manic depressive so I cut him some slack for that. Rubin is the one I really have no use for Monk06 Jul 2015 #42

Yeah the Yippies were a weird bunch. former9thward Jul 2015 #44

Those on the leftmost end of the spectrum are generally correct, just ahead of their time. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #13

The original movement died out because Starry Messenger Jul 2015 #15

What I said - co-opted and sabotaged. Emelina Jul 2015 #16

Yeah, but they gave us Richard Nixon NT 1939 Jul 2015 #17

How so? n/t fredamae Jul 2015 #59

Because 1939 Jul 2015 #64

Well, 1968 fredamae Jul 2015 #65

Yay old stuff! Boo new things!! Codeine Jul 2015 #18

As an aging hippie randr Jul 2015 #57

Only thing worse than a slide show on YouTube, is a single slide snooper2 Jul 2015 #19

tl;dw FrodosPet Jul 2015 #22

what we have running the world now are people who hated hippies olddots Jul 2015 #21

Hey man, the parking lot scene is too commercialized now Capt. Obvious Jul 2015 #23

No. You had your time. It is now someone else's time. jeff47 Jul 2015 #26

Well said. Codeine Jul 2015 #37

Re-birth? KamaAina Jul 2015 #31

I think the late 60s-early 70s counterculture in genreal was too individualized and cemaphonic Jul 2015 #34

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2015 #38

Freedom is key! Emelina Jul 2015 #43

This thread has many posts that echo the conservative hippie haters who Zorra Jul 2015 #39

And yet those conservatives have adopted many hippie ideas such as... Emelina Jul 2015 #70

we had occupy wall street Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 #40

yes, because hippies got nothing but respect and quick response from government librechik Jul 2015 #41

Didn't most hippies from the 60s and 70s romanic Jul 2015 #51

No and yes randr Jul 2015 #54

"The world is a kaleidoscopic myth generator" sufrommich Jul 2015 #55

Um.. have you seen the scoreboard recently? GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #53

Young people, particularly college students, played a primary role in creating tension Zorra Jul 2015 #66

Pot is legal? tabasco Jul 2015 #71

You forgot to mention how there are no protest songs like there were in the good old days (nt) TacoD Jul 2015 #58

Ha! Codeine Jul 2015 #62

Agreed! CanSocDem Jul 2015 #63

Lovely video... PassingFair Jul 2015 #73

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2015 #67

Should have been at the Dead shows! Hippies had the moral authority. War is wrong, etc.. grahamhgreen Jul 2015 #68