Reply #7: I am 61 so I remember the sixties well

[zeemike]

Although my memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
But it was a time of freedom unlike the 80s and 90s where people were bombarded with loads of propaganda from that little box that everyone watches all the time.
The perception of the young was not shaped by anything except music in those days, and music was almost a communication device for the young. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones as well as so many other bands influenced us and spoke with our voice.
By the 80s the right began using the TV to shape the ideas of the young. As an example (the TV show with Michale J Fox I can't remember the name) had a semi hippie mother and father and a son that lover Richard Nixon and embraced the idealism of capitalism and big business, stood as an template for how the young should be.
And it did work and turned out a generation of RW young people that only wanted to be a money market manager and make millions before they were 30. Not all of them fell for it though, because it is imposable for all to be that way, but enough so that the false RW ideology stayed alive and well into the 21st century.