Reply #25: The New Left started liberal bashing in the sixties. [View All]

[jomcnamara]

Remember Phil Ochs' "Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal." It was one of the many self-destructive activities that fed the egos of the "revolutionary" youth of that period. Or was it yet another FBI hoax planted by provocateurs? In any case, "liberal" became a word of scorn and in our typical sensitive way, most of us became timid about defending the title, setting us up for Reagan's counter-punch during the 1980 campaign.