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In reply to the discussion: You Tell Us: When Did The Spirit Of The '60s End? [View all]KansDem
(28,498 posts)16. November 4, 1980
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Which shows a certain lack of imagination and naive belief in white middle-class priviledge,
FarCenter
May 2012
#29
No argument here. No one should ever die from gunfire aimed at them by
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#34
I agree. That only made us more determined. For me the end of our hopes came when RFK was
jwirr
May 2012
#38
Until I personally witnessed the Occupy Los Angeles encampment last fall, I
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#59
I am watching them closely and still have hope that they will be able to pull us together. However,
jwirr
May 2012
#67
Don't even get me started on that union-busting red-baiting son of a bitch Reagan. Also,
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#72
It hasn't ended. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is blind to the changes...
Scuba
May 2012
#3
People who wonder if protest works don't notice we got pretty much every damn thing we fought for.
aquart
May 2012
#18
That's my thought as well. Throughout the 70s you could at least kid yourself that things would
HiPointDem
May 2012
#62
The fact that in todays America "Dirty Fucking" most always precedes "Hippie"...
stlsaxman
May 2012
#19
Those people took off their orange jumpers, smoked reefer, and had sex with each other,
leveymg
May 2012
#21
Excellent point. The period was certainly not a monolith. But do you think
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#24
It's important because of the coming of age of a large cohort of the dominant socioeconomic group
FarCenter
May 2012
#57
Yeah, I totally get what you're saying. I still can't help feeling it as an
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#58
Or the 60s IN Vietnam? Or the 60s in Africa - the one experienced by Patrice Lumbumba?
Taverner
May 2012
#74
From April 4 to June 6, 1968. The finest visionaries of that generation had their brains blown out.
Selatius
May 2012
#64
Bobby Kennedy is the best example of how things and people evolve. IIRC, RFK started out with
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#75