Where?
It's high time there were Hippies about. High time. Where are they? I mean, the last time we had an unjust war and a corrupt government, they were all over the place. Dick Cheney remembers - he used to pick them off the fence with loads of birdshot.
The whole 'counterculture' erupted in the late 1960's around the seemingly unlimited greed and crimes of the executive branch. Where are they now? I mean, Nixon was a piker compared to these guys.
Well, first, the right has spend a lot of the corporate dollars they've fleeced from taxpayers to set up 'think tanks' and scholarships and to buy the media outright. They tend to get to the impressionable set early, so that young radicals are more apt to join the College Republicans these days. For the rest, nothing they say or do will ever be reported on Fox News or CNN, so what's the point?
And then there's the internet. With blogs abounding with opinion and bursting with outrage (like this one), the young people who should be out in the streets fighting cops are at home in front of their keyboard thinking that they are making a difference.
And then there's the complete abdication of all Congressional authority and responsibility. When they caught the Junta red-handed breaking the law and wiretapping Americans without a warrant, they did nothing. They had the Attorney General in for one show where he told them "fuck you" and that was it. The response has been to fall all over themselves to find a way to legalize the illegal stuff that the executive has been doing.
Can you imagine if Congress had done that in the Watergate investigation? If they'd had non-leaders like Arlen Spectre at the helm, they'd have found a way to make burglary legal. The 'Dirty Tricks' would have been enshrined as law.
But Nixon could never lie like Junior. At least, nobody was stupid enough to believe him. Perhaps those years of Ford/Reagan/Bush Sr. were enough to destroy our once-proud school system to the point where Johnny can not only not read but he can't smell a rat when he's lied to repeatedly over years.
Where are the Hippies? Where is the Congress? Where have all the flowers gone?
The whole 'counterculture' erupted in the late 1960's around the seemingly unlimited greed and crimes of the executive branch. Where are they now? I mean, Nixon was a piker compared to these guys.
Well, first, the right has spend a lot of the corporate dollars they've fleeced from taxpayers to set up 'think tanks' and scholarships and to buy the media outright. They tend to get to the impressionable set early, so that young radicals are more apt to join the College Republicans these days. For the rest, nothing they say or do will ever be reported on Fox News or CNN, so what's the point?
And then there's the internet. With blogs abounding with opinion and bursting with outrage (like this one), the young people who should be out in the streets fighting cops are at home in front of their keyboard thinking that they are making a difference.
And then there's the complete abdication of all Congressional authority and responsibility. When they caught the Junta red-handed breaking the law and wiretapping Americans without a warrant, they did nothing. They had the Attorney General in for one show where he told them "fuck you" and that was it. The response has been to fall all over themselves to find a way to legalize the illegal stuff that the executive has been doing.
Can you imagine if Congress had done that in the Watergate investigation? If they'd had non-leaders like Arlen Spectre at the helm, they'd have found a way to make burglary legal. The 'Dirty Tricks' would have been enshrined as law.
But Nixon could never lie like Junior. At least, nobody was stupid enough to believe him. Perhaps those years of Ford/Reagan/Bush Sr. were enough to destroy our once-proud school system to the point where Johnny can not only not read but he can't smell a rat when he's lied to repeatedly over years.
Where are the Hippies? Where is the Congress? Where have all the flowers gone?
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