VH1: Woodstock Special On ... compare liberal "mobs" then to today's townhall mobs

[BLUSH]

Cam you imagine half a million Teabaggers, Birthers, Evangelicals, and Militia together for 3 days of "guns, god, and gays"?

[RagAss]

1. They're the same people. Most of these folks gave us Reagan and Bush.

[BLUSH]

2. ?

The Woodstock crowd gave us Reagan and Bush?

Huh?

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Sadly, some of them probably did.

Or as Don Henley put it, they would be the ones with "Deadhead stickers on (their)Cadillacs". Of course they might have went to Woodstock itself, or at least listened to that era of music, but apparently they weren't really listening :evilfrown:

[Johonny]

6. yeah

reminds of a post I read once where a conservative complained he love Neil Young but wish he didn't get so political in his concerts. It's like "do you ever listen to lyrics in the his songs..."

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. I remember the Freepers freaking out when he released the song about impeaching the Chimp.

I'm thinking.... Uh, what about "Ohio", dumbasses?

[mitchum]

25. I bet that conservative really would have liked Ol' Neil when he was supporting Reagan in the 80s

Sad, but true

[BLUSH]

10. Here's Bush during Jefferson Airplane's set

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. And the caption is....

"So whose this Alice girl, and what was I supposed to be askin her, again?"

[BLUSH]

12. "brownie acid, you're doing a heck of a job!"

:)

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Ok, you win.

Chimp would have been the guy who ate the brown acid, too. Even after the stage announcement. Actually, that explains a lot...... :crazy:

[BLUSH]

14. Katrina was Bush's Woodstock

Or I suppose, the anti-Woodstock. (Or Altamont)

[MrMickeysMom]

16. God, that's a horrible few pix

Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned, the Stones at Altamonte... No, no, no, it's never gonna be understood until the people who revere Woodstock 40 years later understand what we've not quite come through yet.... and this numb nuts was at the wheel, getting ready to drive us off the cliff like Thelma and Louise.

[Hansel]

5. I doubt it. Most of them probably didn't even vote.

[tilsammans]

8. Yep, a lot of 'em were sellouts.

Sad to say. :puke:

(I'm proud to have kept my Woodstock-era values! :hippie:)

[SoCalDem]

21. Nope their PARENTS gave us those two.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that a LOT of us Boomers were pretty busy in those years, raising kids & trying to get careers going, and most probably paid little attention to politics once the Viet Nam war ended and Civil Rights passed.. Many of us cocooned for many years.

ReaganII probably started waking us all up, and for many it was probably the Clinton Persecution that "did it" .

[DBoon]

26. You are right about that one

The folks who moved to the all-white suburbs after WWII, who hated the civil rights movement, didn't want to live next door to "those people" were the core of the Reagan movement.

Who hated the anti-war demonstrators with an equal passion, and thought we would have won the Vietnam War if we had only used nukes.

They were the base that elected Ronald Reagan as president.

Reagan's base cheered the national guard at Kent State, and only wished more hippies had died.

Reagan's base cheered him on as governor when he gassed anti-war protesters.

They voted Reagan for president to put an end to Woodstock

[2Design]

4. Thanks - this is terrific started at 9pm until 11pm VH1 n/t

[BLUSH]

7. It will be repeated at midnight

NT

[frazzled]

15. Talking bout my generation, folks

No, we emphatically did NOT give you Reagan and Bush.

We were engaged and political, and, yes, we voted: liberals then, liberals now. I'm sure someone will chime in with a counterexample of someone who turned out to be a conservative. But that wouldn't be representative of my generation ... not those who felt a part of Woodstock, whether there or not.

Our parents gave us Reagan and Bush, and the generation who came after us gave us Reagan and Bush. Reagan and Bush made us wretch.

Remember that there were two very separate kinds of young people in 1969: the Woodstock generation, and the, well, for lack of a better word, the non-Woodstock generation. We existed at the same time. One group opposed the war, one group supported the war. Both groups were drafted and shed blood in that war, though one more than the other . . . because a lot of Woodstockers would cut off a finger or escape to Canada before going. Or become COs, like my brother or my husband's best friend.

[dana_b]

17. partially wrong

the generation after you was too young to vote for Reagan. Bush? hell no! I don't know anyone my age who voted for Bush but I'm sure there are. However I do know quite a few 50-60 year olds who loved the bastard. I think there are dumb ones in all generations.

[frazzled]

18. Reagan was elected 11 years and 15 years after Woodstock

I'd call people 11 years younger than me a different generation: I was 19 in 1969. Someone 11 years younger would have been 8. You can't be of the woodstock generation if you were 8. And today's 50 year-olds were definitely not part of the Woodstock generation: they were far too young.

I couldn't even vote in 1969, because the voting age was 21 back then.

Think back: the difference between 1969 and 1980-81 was cataclysmic. Like two different worlds.

[BLUSH]

19. He was governor of California in 1969

nt

[frazzled]

20. Oh yeah, and the Hippies elected him

Jeebus folks, use your heads.

[BLUSH]

23. I was listening to Woodstock on XM radio

One of the performers "dedicated" a song to Ronald Ray-Gun.

The only hippy who voted for him was probably this fellow:

[dana_b]

22. ah! my bad.

I thought you were from the baby boomer gen. sorry. I was 4 in '69 so there you go. We are those slacker, gen xers!! ;)

[Cetacea]

27. Actually, Iran/Contra gave us Reagan/Bush . Carter would have one.

And it was the boomers who supported Carter. Another stolen election.

[BlooInBloo]

24. Idiot Americans love their false equivalences.

[NOLALady]

28. I suspect these guys raised great children.

Who knows, perhaps one of their offspring could become a great President.