Dontcha Get It? After ALL THESE YEARS...WE TRIED TO TELL YA'!

[KoKo]

ONCE AGAIN! The "Dirty Fucking Hippies..UPDATED!

[Cleita]

1. K&R

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!! - We Were The Future, That They Cannot Get To Now...

Maybe...

[JDPriestly]

3. K&R. Wait until the hippies retire.

Congress will turn very, very liberal.

[SunSeeker]

6. Aren't they already retiring?

[mountain grammy]

9. We're just getting started! My dirty fucking hippie cohorts are retiring at 62.

[RebelOne]

10. Yes, I was of the hippie era and am now retired. n/t

[okaawhatever]

4. Ahhh, a time when the difference between "us" and "them" was long hair, now the

difference is health care, a living wage, a retirement plan and a voice in Congress.

[Brigid]

23. Ladies and gentlemen, we have our winner.

Spot on.

[zeemike]

5. And by the time people realize it

they will have ben fucked

[bvar22]

7. The Hippies WERE right!

---bavr22 & Starkraven
Living Well on a LOW Taxable Income,
and stuff we learned in the 60s.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Wow, Whole Easth Catalog was only $5.

And that book was huge, and so full of info that it was incredible. I wish I still had it.

[Tansy_Gold]

13. I still have mine

And I wasn't even a hippie then!

[AgingAmerican]

21. My mom still has hers

...she still has "The Foxfire Book" too, hehehe.

[Tansy_Gold]

22. I never had the Foxfire books

though I looked through many of them at the library.

I did have a long-time subscription to Mother Earth News until I moved to a part of the country not well served by it. And I still follow a lot of the philosophy.

I've grown hippier and hippier through the years, in more ways than one!

[Curmudgeoness]

28. Better late than never.

There was a lot right with their attitudes and philosophy, even if we were naïve. So live hippier, and enjoy.

[Curmudgeoness]

11. I was told that I would certainly outgrow this.

Bwahahahaha, I didn't.

And we WERE fucking right. We still are.

[DeSwiss]

12. Damn right!

- As are many of the CTers.

K&R!!!

They kept trying to tell us. Ike. Then JFK. And Senators Frank Church and Daniel Inouye. Then the revelations seemed to just stop. Maybe they were in control now. It all sounds so absurd, doesn't it? No one wants to even consider it. And if you repeat it, you're just another crazy CT. That's the beauty of it. It's a self-correcting system of oversight integrity which relies principally upon its victims to protect its existence through their own ignorance and incredulity. And through the constant use of ridicule against those able to see things more objectively and realistically, they maintain a consistent hard outer shell made of incredulous, unknowing people. Because it is understood in our society that being accused of being stupid is the one thing an truly ignorant person hates to be accused of the most.

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[AnotherMcIntosh]

16. Rec

[KoKo]

18. yep...I think more hard work is ahead...

but the Pritzger thing going through unanimously from BOTH SIDES..except for the one "Nay" vote by Bernie Sanders...was sort of a ...well. It's a revelation...of the long slog ahead.

[hootinholler]

19. So stupid authoritarians don't like being called stupid authoritarians

Got it.

I noticed that somewhere along the line. Even lately here in the DU.

[L0oniX]

14. Far out! I can dig it.

[kentuck]

17. dig it!

peace.

[Marie Marie]

15. Proud Hippie here - then and now.

[kentuck]

20. It reminds me of a small grocery store in my neighborhood...

Everybody knew everybody that stopped by the place and I was having a discussion with 3 or 4 old timers in 1972. I had come back from Vietnam and had turned somewhat political. I knew about the Watergate break-in and they did not. They were not very informed. Republicans, I guess? I told them that the story was going to break but maybe after the election. They just smiled in a condescending way and would have nothing to do with George McGovern. I still recall that conversation and I wondered if any of them ever remembered. I never talked politics with them ever again.

[okaawhatever]

24. I was taking my nephews somewhere in the car one day. Ages 5 or 6 and 9.

I asked them what kind of music they wanted to listen to on the radio. After a bit of silence I said, "how about some classic rock". The youngest one said "No That's homeless people music." I think for a second, can't come up with a plausible explanation for his statement, so I asked "homeless people music?" and he said, "Yes. My dad watches those videos at home. Homeless people sing those songs."

And it sunk it, "can't argue with that. Most 60's era musicians did, in fact, look like homeless people."

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. They never did get it. I suspect they'll dodge it this time, too.

And my parents were DFHs, so the hippies have already begun to retire
& R

[defacto7]

26. We had a lot of hopes and dreams of freedom, love

and one world at peace.

Didn't quite happen that way, did it? We were the baby boomers. What we ended up was the generation of disappointment.

After the SCOTUS decisions today and all the shit in the Texas congress, and the Martin case, It's pretty clear to me that nothing has changed. It may even have become worse actually.

I won't see a world at peace or the joys of true Freedom in my lifetime. Slavery and inhumanity still thrive.

[democrank]

27. Right on!

And we`re still "crazy" after all these years.

~PEACE~