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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:30 AM Original message |
What happened to the liberal spirit of the 1960s and earlier? It was so powerful and effective. |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. My mom was one of those |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. I'm probably your age - my mom was one of those liberals |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
44. Yes, a lot of us *are* tired . . . . |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:47 PM Response to Reply #44 |
111. I miss the spirit, the cohesiveness, the solidarity of those times. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #44 |
156. Guess you're right Stinky. I never imagined so many going |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
41. I'm your mom's age |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #41 |
76. "The 60s were complicated. The divide wasn't Dem/repub nearly so much as pro and anti war, and civil |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
72. I say "Brava!" to your mother. Yes, it will take young people to try to revive the liberal spirit |
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Ginto (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. A lot became yuppies and lost their way. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
29. Very good point. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #29 |
78. Yes, especially if you agree that the problem now has become |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
77. It's unfortunate, but true. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
90. Sorry, but one can't stay an unencumbered college student forever. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
172. You are probably right. But what about their children, the younger generation? |
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LiberalArkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. it was just a flash in the pan. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
33. Damn. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. Yes, assassinations do that. Damn. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #43 |
56. With ringing in your ears |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #43 |
80. There are about 340 million of us today. Surely there must be |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #80 |
106. Those of us trying to follow in those (huge) footsteps are ignored. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
92. Not to mention actual KILLING of COLLEGE STUDENTS. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #92 |
107. Exactly. That was a very chilling message. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
91. Born in '49 and likewise. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
174. What you say is true. A few other replies have also pointed out that |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. The 1968 election happened. Liberals didn't vote for Humphrey. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It was pissed away by the party at the '68 convention when they nominated Humphrey. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. That is exactly what happened |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
83. What some nut-job extremists wouldn't resort to! |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. I don't recall a riot at the 1972 convention |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:53 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Well by then they had 'Super Delegates' and all |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. And this affected the outcome, how, in your mind? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #40 |
64. Oh please, get real |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:41 PM Response to Reply #64 |
74. Look at the overall delegate count from '72 |
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JamesA1102 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #26 |
87. No they didn't |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
94. 1. Without the charisma of a Clinton, you ain't beating an incumbent; 2. Eagleton, anyone? 3. Mid- |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
46. You are ***absolutely*** right. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
95. Well, since BOBBY WAS DEAD.......... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
109. One could draw some parallels to today, couldn't one? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
82. Very interesting spin you got there. What happened from the perspective of dyed-in-the-wool liberals |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
5. It was triangulated into a "if you can't beat them, join them" by the "sensible" moderates. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. What an accurate and powerful definition for "sensible" moderates! |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 07:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
142. +1 |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, there was a powerful antiwar movement, but ... |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. What the 60's-70's represented |
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LiberalArkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. It really started before Reagan.. When everyone turned their backs on Carter. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
42. right |
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cilla4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
58. I really like your post. Thanks. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. thanx for words |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #58 |
69. You may be right, but it looks as though the right-wingers will |
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End Of The Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. What happened to that spirit? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. Assassinations. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Ah. I'm 56 and a Brit but I've never forgotten that, and I've never forgotten this: |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
103. + My household. n/t |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 08:34 AM Response to Reply #11 |
146. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King have very likely contriubted |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
13. You are rewriting history when you say Dems did this and Liberals did that in the 60's. |
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LiberalArkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yep they sure were... I am 62 from South Arkansas.. |
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LiberalArkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Yep they sure were... I am 62 from South Arkansas.. |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
50. I agree . . . LBJ, who escalated Vietnam, was a Democrat |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #50 |
60. I have to say I don't believe you lived what you wrote. Here's why. |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #60 |
70. You know what . . . |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #70 |
81. Why did you put these words in your post? |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
97. If you'd go back the Abe Lincoln's time, yes, the Republicans were |
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pgodbold (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
17. in the late '60s, the futility of the war..was.. plain to see. AND there was a Draft. Bring it back. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. You are wrong. The draft did not end the war. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #25 |
38. In part, journalists and cameramen with balls |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #38 |
48. That's why there is "pool" coverage now. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
123. You do have a point there. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
18. Our party hardly looked very heroic in the 60s |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #18 |
105. I was referring more to the spirit of the liberals, who planned, |
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the redcoat (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
19. Are you sure about that? |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
20. STDs and fryed brain cells became a rude awakening. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
45. Conflating hippies with the politicos. Two very different groups. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. Hippies were not the political activists |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Yes, I think that's what I said. There was a big difference. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:49 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. Agreed |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. The liberal label got swiftboated |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. yep |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. Reagan "revolution" |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
28. I wonder if part of it was the timeliness. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
30. Here is what happened. They shot so many leaders that as an |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
32. then we got nixon. nt |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. yeah but |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #32 |
75. . |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
34. decades of apathy-inducing media sensationalism |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
36. Forty years of intense, well-funded demonization n/t |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
37. Seen a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac today |
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KossackRealityCheck (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
39. The 60s weren't what you think they are |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. Regardless of the fates of the left organizations-- |
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KossackRealityCheck (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #47 |
53. You're describing lifestyle over politics |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. lifestyle is no less real to people.... |
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KossackRealityCheck (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:00 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. The organizations didn't implode |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. We wont agree |
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KossackRealityCheck (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. You are confusing liberal legacy with lifestyle |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Eh? |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #53 |
88. Your comment about corporations selling back an apolitical '60s |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #88 |
99. That's getting hard to do. |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 08:16 AM Response to Reply #99 |
145. Yes, but the internet culture doesn't necessarily foster real face-to-face culture |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #53 |
100. And those who retreated to a commune |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #39 |
98. Great comment. Thanks. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
166. There hasn't been a "left" in this country |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
52. The Repukes wed themselves to the Religious Right. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 09:55 AM Response to Reply #52 |
150. The Repukes would wed anybody, including the devil himself, |
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dmosh42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
54. What happened is we have 'fake' progressives..... |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
65. While "conventional wisdom" says that the protests ended the Vietnam War, there are other theories. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. "Sir, No, Sir!" is a great film. The two efforts were too hard |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 07:47 AM Response to Reply #68 |
141. I'll have to look into that film. nt |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:07 AM Response to Reply #141 |
154. Netflix has it. Free Speech TV plays it occasionally. Here's the trailer: |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:12 AM Response to Reply #141 |
155. I think I found it here: |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
67. When you are a college student, you are different from when you |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. I don't look at |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
73. The OP seems romanticized and over simplified though I wasn't there |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
79. No draft. Nt |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
84. The grownups of the 60's had just defeated fascism. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:40 PM Response to Reply #84 |
96. "Reagan Democrats" were from "the Greatest Generation." Getting back at their Hippie kids. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #96 |
101. Yes. Just yours. n/t |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 09:18 AM Response to Reply #101 |
147. It was a joke. Who do YOU think became "Reagan Democrats", then? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:51 AM Response to Reply #147 |
160. On balance, I think the greatest generation did more good... |
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JamesA1102 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
85. Didn't Nixon win the Presidency in the late '60s? nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:33 PM Response to Reply #85 |
93. What's your point? The 1968 Democratic Convention was declared "a police riot., " |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #93 |
115. I was in Chicago in 1968 when conservaDem Richard J. Daley turned CPD loose on "The Left"! |
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JamesA1102 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #93 |
117. My point is that the '60s was not the liberal uptopia |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:34 PM Response to Reply #117 |
120. I don't think there ever was any utopia anywhere. But the liberal |
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JamesA1102 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 08:33 PM Response to Reply #120 |
125. More alive in the 60s? Which is why Nixon got elected? nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #125 |
148. The two are not mutually exclusive. And the Nixon-HHH race was very close at the end, with MANY |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 05:06 PM Response to Reply #125 |
173. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern split the Progressive vote, |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
86. Vietnam didn't end until 1975. The protests did nothing to stop it. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:39 PM Response to Reply #86 |
108. I think the protests did their part. Johnson became too unpopular , |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
89. Don't you remember? The Boomers didn't accomplish anything, and now we're responsible for today's |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #89 |
104. That says it all. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #89 |
110. Well, in the 1960s many boomers were in their late teens and |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
102. Wall Street did not own Congress and the Oval Office. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 04:52 PM Response to Reply #102 |
112. I'm still having my fingers crossed that Wall Street does not |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
113. We didn't have access to the internet back then, so we knew that the only way to be heard was |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #113 |
116. Yes, we all tend to think of our own safety. These sure played a role. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
114. It ended when the American Football League did. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
118. Would you really like to know what happened to us?(Liberal next gens) |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:26 PM Response to Reply #118 |
119. And who is this "you" who told you all these things? Republicans? |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #119 |
130. I told the members of DU these things |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:54 AM Response to Reply #130 |
136. Don't give up just yet. |
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Shireling (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
121. For whatever reason |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 08:37 PM Response to Reply #121 |
126. Do you mean that Reagan was a messiah for the Pubs, but the Dems. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:47 PM Response to Reply #126 |
165. No, the Dems voted for him (n/t) |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
122. Hubert Humphrey would have been a great President |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
124. Simple Answer? "BIG MONEY CORPORATISM" and Supreme Court's Recent Decision.. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #124 |
128. The Pubs. have nominated 5 justices in the Supreme Court. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
127. What happened to that spirit? |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:45 AM Response to Reply #127 |
131. "I don't know how we will ever gain the upper hand again, it just seems impossible at times |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:45 AM Response to Reply #127 |
132. "I don't know how we will ever gain the upper hand again, it just seems impossible at times |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-28-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
129. "It was so powerful and effective." |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:05 AM Response to Reply #129 |
133. And Lyndon Johnson did not run again because he knew he |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:51 AM Response to Reply #133 |
135. How was that "powerful and effective"? |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 06:33 AM Response to Reply #135 |
138. They played a big role in Lyndon Johnson's not running again, |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 07:21 AM Response to Reply #129 |
139. yeah, america in the 70s was just like the fifties because nothing happened. |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
134. Maybe some of it will show up this weekend at a certain rally. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
137. Sorry, you lost me at "Chris Hedges". nt |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 07:35 AM Response to Reply #137 |
140. Am sending you a copy of a post I wrote earlier: " Writer said that |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
143. Hoo boy! |
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greymattermom (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
144. next generation |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
149. "We got Nixon. We got Nixon." Look. MLK was murdered. Bobby was murdered. VietNam was "LBJ's War." |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #149 |
151. "The real question is not where are the now-60+ year-old Liberals; it is where are the YOUNG |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #151 |
159. MAD Magazine predicted it 40 years ago: Hippies would have Conservative kids. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #159 |
161. Yes, some of them do. I think that the number of liberals still |
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AmandaRuth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
152. what happened was is the illuminati or whatever |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #152 |
153. Hold off on feeling overwhelmed a bit longer. :o) We've got to make |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #152 |
157. Here's some very cheerful news from another thread on DU - Info from the horse's mouth. |
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AmandaRuth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #157 |
162. Thank you Cal |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:18 PM Response to Reply #162 |
163. You're welcome. I'm keeping my options open about whether or not |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
158. Way to rewrite history. Nixon re-elected by a landslide in 1972 after giving us "4 more years" |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #158 |
167. And he was "not one of us" |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
164. Please don't get suckered in by revisionist "history" |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #164 |
175. Excellent summary . . . Proud Dad |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 11:35 AM Response to Reply #164 |
176. A terrific post, Proud Dad! Your summary of the Vietnam War and |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
168. Search for "baby boomers" and George Carlin on google |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #168 |
170. Thanks for the info. Will google "baby boomers" and "George Carlin." |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
169. The sixties were when union employment levels started dropping |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
171. Neocons also got their start in early 60s |
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