When a subculture becomes a different race. Hippies. Now Liberals.

[Rider Haggard]

This is from a Time News report:

"But as the police combed the hills around Santa Cruz visiting communes and cabins, they found the hippies just as frightened by the murders as the townspeople. Said District Attorney Peter Chang: "The investigating officers who went into their communities found tremendous help from the hippie-type people." The big break in the case, leading to the capture of a suspect, came from the hippies."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909676,00.html

I was one of them and at the time was proud to be. Hell, I had more fun and sex than any republican I knew. BUT the branding was there. Hippies were somehow less than "the rest of us." And I see the same sort of branding going on today and for the last 15 years. It's the "Liberals!"

Liberals want to take your money, fornicate with your livestock, surrender to terrorists (whatever that means) and essentially bring about the end to America. It's got to be so because earlier today, Dick Cheney inferred that now that he's not in control America's no longer safe. If you listen long and hard enough to the RW talking machine you will find that we Liberals are resposible for anything from gout to indigestion. Liberals are not people according to many. They are the invisible enemy that stalks your bushes waiting to steal your money and health care.

Please help educate America in that us Liberals are not going to destroy the country anymore than Hippies did. Hell they just did the same things Liberals did in helping bring an end to an unjust war and gave civil rights a nudge or two.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Homelanders are the problem

With their passion to see America fail.

The Republicon Homelanders have isolated themselves, and taken a stand against all that is good about America.

[provis99]

2. Hippies still flourish in Bloomington, Indiana

I imagine most of the big midwest college towns still have them, and they're in large part responsible for increasing the vitality and culture of those towns. Even in Oxford, Mississippi, when I was there, there were a few counterculture and hippy folks around, to ward off the oppressive nativism of the local redneck population of Mississippi.

[Webster Green]

3. I'm still a proud Northern California hippie..

Yep, that's right. I'm still a hippie. A first-wave hippie. I was eating lots of acid when it was still legal. I'll be a hippie till the day I die.

Of course, I'm a liberal and a political activist too, but a hippie first! :hippie: I guess I'm a triple threat to the neanderthals. :eyes:

[Patchuli]

11. I just knew it! I knew there's a reason I like you!

You are kind. :hug:

Proud transplanted So Cal hippie girl to No Cal here! I'm like 'wave and one-half!' I remember love-ins at Griffith Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZIBetPMygA

Too bad I was just a wee small flower child and the folks wouldn't let me do much! Or maybe, it's a good thing they didn't?! LOL!

[Webster Green]

12. Hey Baby!

Aw, thanks! :P

[jwirr]

4. The Hippie lives proudly within many of us just waiting for those times

he/she can come out and do some good.

[CoffeeCat]

5. it's not enough for Dick Cheney...

...and the neocon thugs--to perpetuate and discuss their agenda.

They MUST malign, pervert and distort the groups that don't agree with them.

What's even more sick, is that they aren't even honest about their true agenda.

They want Fascism. But they have to hide their grand plan--because it's awful and criminal.

So they claim that they are "fighting terrorism" (so they can steal your civil rights). They
insist that they are "keeping America safe"(so they can destroy our democracy). They pretend
to be on a mission to save the babies (so they can control women's bodies).

These thugs aren't even level with this country about what they're really doing.

So, how in the world can Dick criticize liberals?

At least we're up front about our agenda--healthcare for all, fair taxes, civil rights, women's
rights, help and comfort for the poor. They hide their sickness.

Why is anyone in the media trodding out Cheney?

[upi402]

6. The hippies were right, and the right was wrong

go figure...???
Liberal became a dirty word after Raygun took over and the media became the right's propaganda organ.

[anonymous171]

7. Hippies are not always "Liberals." Hippies are to the left what the fundies are to the right.

In other words, leftist "culture warriors."

[old mark]

8. Funny thing is - I used to be a hippie, always was a liberal - at least -

and I also always considered myself an American patriot in the best sense of the term.

Those small minded "religious" GOP people are the real anti-Americans.

mark

[OutNow]

9. You're a Liberal - Not Really!

My insane Rushbot BIL, who does not have an idea in his head that has not been inserted by Rush Limbaugh, told me, with a smirk, "You're a liberal!". It was the worst label he could think of with his pea brain.

"Not really", I explained. Now, of course, he expected me to plead, "no, no, I'm not a liberal, I'm an American". Instead, I explained that I was a socialist and a trade union member, am antiwar activist and a war tax resister, a hippy and (former) pot user, a communard and atheist. Oh, I was so much more than a liberal. If he thought liberals were the worst thing he (e.g. Rush) could think of it just illustrated the paucity of his knowledge.

It was the only time in memory my BIL was left speechless.

[L0oniX]

10. Right now it is still the Dem hippies vs the Rep establishment.

[Orsino]

13. Far too late.

Liberals are to American fascists what Snowball was to Napoleon: convenient, invisible scapegoats for every fuck-up made by The Powers That Be.

[Naturyl]

14. This is expected human behavior.

In combating a perceived (or manufactured) enemy, three basic steps are always followed - dehumanize, segregate, and destroy. The attempted dehumanization of liberals has been going on for years in the form of AM radio and Fox News. As for segregation, Glenn Beck's outlandish new "we surround you" campaign certainly smacks of it.

Thankfully, it is very unlikely that rabid conservatives will ever push their agenda much beyond this stage. Beck is preaching to a well-known choir which has been essentially written off by the nation at large. But in places like Nazi Germany and Rwanda, it played out like clockwork.

[Rider Haggard]

15. Very much so.

I have been a "minority" for most of my life by my own choosing. I guess I have an advantage of sorts from some in that respect.

BUT the fact that some factions take it as an artform to make socially marginalized groups to 'villainize" and make the stupid fear is a uniquely American phenomenon in recent years not surpassed by anything since Hitler's Germany.