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I consider myself independent, and I know that the Hippies are often associated with liberals and Democrats. But I often wonder what would have happened if we listened to the Hippies. I wasn't around when Hippies roamed the earth, so I can only go off of what I know from popular culture reference. The Hippies were into smoking pot, which has become more and more accepted. While not harmless, it certainly isn't as bad as drinking or even smoking tobacco. Pot even has some medicinal benefits. The environment? After the Exxon Valdez, the deep water horizon rig and $4 gas prices, I can't say that I agree with using oil as a primary energy source. Vehicle fuel efficiency only increased in the past few years, and didn't budge from the 30's up until very recently. Perhaps if we made changes 50 years ago we wouldn't be in the oil-addicted situation we are in now. The Vietnam War? A total nightmare. And now we know that the entire thing was based on a lie of a false flag operation. The endless war "foreign conflict" idea still burns human lives and American taxpayer money. Organized religion? A complete disaster. From radical Islam to fundamental christians to the branch davidians to the scientolgists; a complete and total cluster-youknowwhat. I know a lot of people hate Hippies and will hate this post. But maybe, just maybe, if we listened to them 50 years ago, at least about some things, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.
Hippies were more ideological than partisan. Case in point: they hated LBJ about as much as they hated Nixon. They were associated with the Democrat party only to the extent that the progressives eventually found a place at the Democrat party table. But they still had to share that table with good ol' boy southern Democrats with whom they obviously didn't see eye to eye.
True. Except for the various cancers associated with the use of tobacco products. So, yes, except for horrible pain and death, nothing wrong with tobacco.
Hippies were more ideological than partisan. Case in point: they hated LBJ about as much as they hated Nixon. They were associated with the Democrat party only to the extent that the progressives eventually found a place at the Democrat party table. But they still had to share that table with good ol' boy southern Democrats with whom they obviously didn't see eye to eye.
Hippies didn't neccessarily see eye to eye with progressives. Where I live in the south I remember hearing how there were a fair amount of hippies who liked the culture of smoking pot, long hair, free love, music, etc. but disliked the women's rights and civil rights movements (Redneck Hippies). If anything they were closer to some of the Southern Democrats then progressives.
True. Except for the various cancers associated with the use of tobacco products. So, yes, except for horrible pain and death, nothing wrong with tobacco.
I think many hippies were poseurs following a fad. The same type kids who are all tatted up and pierced these days. However, it was the boomers coming of age, and a massive slug of newly educated, idealistic young people were thinking about new ways to live in the future. Given that most of these same people became hypermaterialistic yuppies in the 1980s, I take their youthful lifestyles with a grain of salt. Still, the creativity and vision for the future were generally positive, except for all the drugs and sleeping around. I think both have consequences.
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