Not your parents' revolution — how today's
anarchists differ from 60s protesters
Fox News,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/23/2020 8:48:15 AM
In the 1960s and early ’70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country’s attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The Vietnam War and widespread college deferments were likely the fuel that ignited prior peaceful civil disobedience.
Sometimes the demonstrations became violent, as with the Watts riots of 1965 and the protests at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Terrorists from the Weathermen (later called the Weather Underground) bombed dozens of government buildings.
The ’60s revolution introduced to the country everything from hippies, communes, free love, mass tattooing, commonplace profanity, rampant drug use, rock music and high divorce rates to the war on poverty,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/23/2020 9:09:25 AM (No. 487956)
The biggest difference between the counter culture of the 60s and today is the MEDIA. In the 60s, we had only nightly news and the Today Show in the morning. There was no talk radio, there were no cable shows. Our newspapers reported the news, not political opinions. And 24/7 news did not exist, which due to it's repetitiveness, often distorts the news by making minority opinions appear as majority.
It's a very complex issue---definitely worth thinking about the comparisons. I'm surprised that FOX neglected to include the media factor, which I think should be paramount in any discussion.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cindiana 7/23/2020 9:21:28 AM (No. 487973)
And, if I may expand upon #1's important observation, the hippies had no cell phones.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RU4us 7/23/2020 9:26:14 AM (No. 487980)
"In the ’60s, a huge “silent majority” finally had enough, elected Richard Nixon and slowed down the revolution by jailing its criminals, absorbing and moderating it."
And then there was Kent State.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/23/2020 9:36:42 AM (No. 488005)
They had Bill Ayers, we have George Soros.
VDH elaborately lays out conditional differences but to me, perpetually angry, self-absorbed, anti-American trash is anti-American trash no matter what the time period, hair styles, skin colors, imaginary grievances, educational deficiencies or parenting failures. Yes, we will soon tear these naughty children a new one and hopefully for them it will not take another Kent State.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/23/2020 9:40:53 AM (No. 488012)
In the 60's I think both the hippie movement and the yippie movement were domestic in nature. Today's radicals are puppets on global strings.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/23/2020 9:55:15 AM (No. 488033)
The vast Silent Majority has already started to put an end to the destruction of America. We elected President Trump in 2016. We will reelect him this year, 2020. Attitudes are changing and we are fighting back. We watch the blue cities and states self-destruct, tolerate and encourage violence, and we say NO!
The answer for us is to vote. Vote in every election-state, local and national. Vote a straight Republican ticket (I know that some are RINOS, but they are marginally preferable to democrats!) Also, speak out! Don't allow yourself to be intimidated by the left. Other people must know that they aren't alone. If they can silence you, they win.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/23/2020 9:56:45 AM (No. 488038)
I always felt we were dropping nape and hi-drags on the wrong people. The real threat was already here inside the gate.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/23/2020 10:05:32 AM (No. 488054)
Because that would be akin to admitting they are part of the problem at Fox #1, especially after Ailes was forced out. The media is indeed the fuel that is running this show, versus honest issues that the 60's protesters came up with.
Also, like the French Revolution and the Bolshies in Russia, this is being led by people with buckets of money who are trying to pass themselves off as being one of the masses when they are anything but. So much of what is driving this right now is due to deliberate ignorance and outright lies and non issues.
I have noticed brief mentions in news stories that when actual do something authorities come to shut down the riots/protests, cell phones seem to have a problem working. So while these kids might have cell phones, it is possible to jam them up electronically.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/23/2020 10:48:55 AM (No. 488103)
It was that "Greatest Generation" that brought us the "Great Society", "War on Poverty", Vietnam, JFK, LBJ and set the stage for "The Sixties" and today by raising their kids with Dr. Spock's guidance, pressing careers over family and home, making divorce normal. The Boomers extended that growing permissive environment by adopting drugs as "recreation", removing shame from promiscuity, and raising "single motherhood" and urban poverty into heroic ways of life. What we have today is just a bit further along the continuum.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Smart11344 7/23/2020 2:23:06 PM (No. 488291)
The drugs of the 60's were bad. But todays drugs are far more dangerous.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 7/23/2020 3:48:57 PM (No. 488337)
Crazy, dangerous, unpredictable and all without the motivation of LSD?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/23/2020 4:28:58 PM (No. 488388)
The biggest difference I see is that most of these kids are soi boi p*ssies and bull dykes, as Marxist crazy as can be, and totally ignorant of any real history.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/23/2020 6:57:53 PM (No. 488506)
The punks of the 60's and 70's are the "teachers" of today's punks and they have done a better job at "education" than Mao ever dreamed of. The news readers of radio and tv in those glorious days were the beloved and trustworthy person in America. Walter Cronkite. A really really objective "reporter". There were others just as "fair minded" as Walter. It's just been a steady drip drip of liberal babble and now here we are. Cronkite would be pleased.
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