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Warpy

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Thu Feb-25-10 09:52 AM
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58. I was in Boston

and the revolutionary zeal lasted until the mid 70s. They were mostly trash talking PIAs but they scared the hell out of reasonable people. Then everybody either moved someplace they could have an organic garden and kids or bit the bullet and took a corporate job. I did both but had to ditch the corporate job, it gave me gas.

A lot of us wanted to distance ourselves from the screamers although we remained quietly radical. We pretty much waited for it to all die down and then got socked with Reaganism, as much a reaction against the screamers as the election of Nixon had been.

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-"Today’s New Right looks a lot like the New Left of the ’60s" - your take?	WilliamPitt	Feb-25-10 06:22 AM	#0
- The ONLY thing I see in common is some degree of anger at the establishment	depakid	Feb-25-10 06:25 AM	#1
- The tea party has a demographic problem.	Bosso 63	Feb-25-10 07:21 AM	#16
- The whole comparison is insulting.	mmonk	Feb-25-10 06:30 AM	#2
- I agree-- it's insulting	Art_from_Ark	Feb-25-10 06:35 AM	#5
- We were the ones that brought forth the advancement	mmonk	Feb-25-10 06:44 AM	#7
- Sullen, essentially hopeless anger of the Teabaggers	Jackpine Radical	Feb-25-10 07:27 PM	#79
- Exactly. They're murdering pigs.	Zoeisright	Feb-25-10 06:58 AM	#10
- You are likely right.	wolfgangmo	Feb-26-10 12:37 PM	#102
- We SDS organizers did exactly that.	Hardrada	Feb-26-10 12:43 PM	#103
- agreed n/t	newfie11	Feb-25-10 08:10 AM	#23
- The article was making a sociological comparison, not an ideological one.	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:17 AM	#28
- Nevertheless, it still doesn't work.	Jackpine Radical	Feb-25-10 07:29 PM	#80
- +1	Johonny	Feb-25-10 08:55 AM	#48
- +1000	Cetacea	Feb-25-10 08:56 AM	#49
- I think it's something we should learn from	XemaSab	Feb-26-10 01:17 PM	#109
- Good. Maybe they'll destroy the right's cohesiveness and derail its priorities	asthmaticeog	Feb-25-10 06:31 AM	#3
- Which priority did the sixties left derail?	Toots	Feb-25-10 07:58 AM	#22
- How about the monolithic Democratic Party, that was in charge 80% of the time from 1932	RaleighNCDUer	Feb-25-10 09:11 AM	#53
- Eh? LBJ admitted that the Civil Rights Act screwed that pooch.	Warren Stupidity	Feb-25-10 01:56 PM	#70
- I totally agree with your point about the fascist structure	XemaSab	Feb-26-10 01:30 PM	#111
- The only reason the so-called Tea Party has any credibility at all	ixion	Feb-25-10 06:33 AM	#4
- +1, ixion.	Enthusiast	Feb-25-10 07:07 AM	#13
- +infinity	Warren Stupidity	Feb-25-10 07:35 AM	#17
- + infinity +1	Richard Steele	Feb-25-10 08:15 AM	#26
- +1. Everyone can just read ixion's msg above and leave this thread. Nail in coffin. n/t	FormerDittoHead	Feb-25-10 08:19 AM	#29
- we on the Left know all too well what ignoring a group can do to a movement	fascisthunter	Feb-25-10 08:26 AM	#35
- !!!	SammyWinstonJack	Feb-25-10 08:58 AM	#50
- I'd go so far as to say the "tea party" is a blank-canvass/bogeyman	Romulox	Feb-25-10 09:31 AM	#56
- I believe the political term is "neoliberals". I think we ought start............	pattmarty	Feb-25-10 02:12 PM	#74
- +1 for popinjay	arcadian	Feb-25-10 09:26 PM	#88
- lol	ixion	Feb-26-10 05:42 AM	#91
- Thank you. eom	Hello_Kitty	Feb-26-10 01:16 PM	#108
- I wrote something similar a month or so ago about the left/right similarity	Warpy	Feb-25-10 06:36 AM	#6
- Given that most of these teabaggers seem to be Boomers I think it's an interesting mirror image.	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:20 AM	#30
- Boomers haven't gone into retirement in significant numbers yet	Warpy	Feb-25-10 08:25 AM	#33
- You mean what is often called the Silent Generation?	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:31 AM	#38
- Repeating a lie doesn't make it come true	Warpy	Feb-25-10 08:34 AM	#41
- Maybe I'm misremembering things, I swear I saw a lot of people in their 50s and 60s...	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:42 AM	#43
- They all looked mid 60s to mid 70s to me.	Warpy	Feb-25-10 09:04 AM	#51
- Some boomers were like Ted Nugent or Jane Fonda	Urban Prairie	Feb-25-10 11:09 AM	#63
- I don't know if it's fair to compare Nugent or Fonda? A more apt person would...........	pattmarty	Feb-25-10 02:34 PM	#76
- Ummm....Jane Fonda is not a conservative	RFKHumphreyObama	Feb-25-10 09:45 PM	#89
- Jane Fonda was born in 1938, hence, not a Boomer. eom	Hello_Kitty	Feb-26-10 01:58 PM	#113
- Generation Suck. LOL!	catbyte	Feb-25-10 10:47 AM	#59
- I am a War Child. Born just between the Organization Men	Hardrada	Feb-26-10 12:56 PM	#105
- IMO, by the mid-70s, and	Urban Prairie	Feb-25-10 08:34 AM	#40
- Most Boomers didn't do nearly as well economically as the characters in	raccoon	Feb-25-10 09:07 AM	#52
- No kidding, they were all rich and skinny	Warpy	Feb-25-10 01:59 PM	#71
- I hated "30something"also, Same people.	Hardrada	Feb-26-10 12:48 PM	#104
- A lot of us hit the job market just as wages stopped keeping up with CoL.	EFerrari	Feb-25-10 08:42 PM	#85
- I was in Boston	Warpy	Feb-25-10 09:52 AM	#58
- The difference is, many on the Right are heavily armed, and have already assassinated people	leveymg	Feb-25-10 06:46 AM	#8
- This is the important missing piece	zipplewrath	Feb-25-10 07:36 AM	#18
- Blaming the victim for not leaving	harkadog	Feb-25-10 09:19 PM	#87
- I didn't say it was "his fault". You did. And, I'm not apologizing for the Weathermen bombings.	leveymg	Feb-26-10 07:16 AM	#93
- This is the link to the SF bombing	harkadog	Feb-26-10 12:27 PM	#97
- That article is dated March 12, 2009. Anything since then?	leveymg	Feb-26-10 02:26 PM	#114
- I have nothing more recent	harkadog	Feb-26-10 02:35 PM	#116
- I don't think Robert Fassnacht "refused to vacate."	Jackpine Radical	Feb-26-10 12:37 PM	#101
- There were many previous bomb threats.	leveymg	Feb-26-10 02:28 PM	#115
- 180 degrees	timtom	Feb-25-10 06:54 AM	#9
- The 60s was different in that the masses of people involved.	OHdem10	Feb-25-10 07:01 AM	#11
- Insulting. nt	Enthusiast	Feb-25-10 07:02 AM	#12
- Looks like they skipped Woodstock and went straight for Altamont	Champion Jack	Feb-25-10 07:07 AM	#14
- Good one!	Cetacea	Feb-25-10 08:53 AM	#45
- dupe	Cetacea	Feb-25-10 08:55 AM	#47
- ya right.....	madrchsod	Feb-25-10 07:18 AM	#15
- Analogy Fail	Warren Stupidity	Feb-25-10 07:36 AM	#19
- New Left didn't have corporate funding. /nt	philly_bob	Feb-25-10 07:38 AM	#20
- all you need is love vs. all you need is hate	spanone	Feb-25-10 07:51 AM	#21
- They are slightly similar, on the surface	CHelms	Feb-25-10 08:10 AM	#24
- Only in as much as they're angry and express distrust of their govt.	damyank913	Feb-25-10 08:14 AM	#
- Good article.	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:14 AM	#25
- The "60s movement" it most closely resembles would be the KKK.	bullwinkle428	Feb-25-10 08:15 AM	#27
- The tea party is disenchanted republicans who lost their jobs	Kokonoe	Feb-25-10 08:20 AM	#31
- No, the "New Right" looks a lot like the "Old Right" of the 60s....	Richard Steele	Feb-25-10 08:22 AM	#32
- YAF	Warren Stupidity	Feb-25-10 08:27 AM	#37
- It does seem that the Teabaggers	Art_from_Ark	Feb-25-10 08:22 PM	#83
- Yeah. I have a BIL who has been a consistent racist gun nut	Hardrada	Feb-26-10 01:04 PM	#106
- The bulk of the Tea Baggers	The Wizard	Feb-25-10 08:25 AM	#34
- "Hated them for their freedom" LOL, epic win!	Odin2005	Feb-25-10 08:32 AM	#39
- Right on man, groovy!	berni_mccoy	Feb-25-10 08:26 AM	#36
- Well, now and then one needs to see an incoherent argument just so you know what one looks like	ThomWV	Feb-25-10 08:39 AM	#42
- The best response on the thread.	David Zephyr	Feb-25-10 03:32 PM	#77
- Wait... You mean this wasn't The Onion?	The_Commonist	Feb-25-10 08:45 AM	#44
- The far Right fringe is unstable, lacking empathy and heavily armed. And more easily lead	KittyWampus	Feb-25-10 08:54 AM	#46
- Such bullshit	whatchamacallit	Feb-25-10 09:27 AM	#54
- It seems to me that "New" Democrats simply haven't learned how to co-opt this right wing	Romulox	Feb-25-10 09:29 AM	#55
- T-baggers are owned and financed by the right wing elites . . .	defendandprotect	Feb-25-10 09:45 AM	#57
- I hope so. The New Left was fucking useless. nt	anonymous171	Feb-25-10 10:49 AM	#60
- Oh that's harsh. Look at all we accomplished:	Warren Stupidity	Feb-25-10 01:46 PM	#69
- Further weak, drastically misguided attempts to align TBs w/the left	Echo In Light	Feb-25-10 10:50 AM	#61
- It's true that in the 60s "The Movement" contained many disparate groups.	Jim__	Feb-25-10 10:56 AM	#62
- Will, I was actually AROUND in the 60's	placton	Feb-25-10 11:51 AM	#64
- It wasn't my comparison.	WilliamPitt	Feb-25-10 12:21 PM	#68
- "but OUR causes were many"	G_j	Feb-25-10 11:57 AM	#65
- Sorta like comparing Mussolini's march on Rome to Gandhi's march to the sea.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb-25-10 11:58 AM	#66
- thank you!	G_j	Feb-25-10 12:00 PM	#67
- Yes, My Thelonious-loving brother!	Prof Lester	Feb-26-10 12:22 PM	#96
- Not really	KingFlorez	Feb-25-10 02:03 PM	#72
- I'm going to disagree.	cornermouse	Feb-25-10 02:11 PM	#73
- No fucking way.	Blue_In_AK	Feb-25-10 02:19 PM	#75
- Seriously...	madriver	Feb-25-10 04:17 PM	#78
- Yes, that's exactly on target.	Jackpine Radical	Feb-25-10 07:30 PM	#81
- I think they're still the same rednecks they were in the 70s.	RainDog	Feb-25-10 07:50 PM	#82
- If the Left embraces diversity, why on earth would anyone expect us	EFerrari	Feb-25-10 08:25 PM	#84
- Yet it's odd how some DUers clearly do NOT embrace diversity	Echo In Light	Feb-26-10 12:30 PM	#99
- Yes. DU is now huge so, we can count on our statistical share of	EFerrari	Feb-26-10 02:37 PM	#117
- And then some...depending upon the topic at hand	Echo In Light	Feb-26-10 02:41 PM	#118
- Bullshit.	bemildred	Feb-25-10 08:43 PM	#86
- the teabaggers are the mullet of political movements	RainDog	Feb-25-10 10:18 PM	#90
- Except for the difference between Love and Hate, you mean?	annabanana	Feb-26-10 05:43 AM	#92
- Perhaps the same dynamics but much different goals.	zeemike	Feb-26-10 07:49 AM	#94
- Can/t believe I see a Will Pitts post at	zeemike	Feb-26-10 08:00 AM	#95
- 'Baggers hate African Americans. Period.	Prof Lester	Feb-26-10 12:29 PM	#98
- I believe all the ideologies in the New Left mentioned in your OP had a common basis	laughingliberal	Feb-26-10 12:34 PM	#100
- Oh yeah? Show us their Baez or Dylan or Lennon!	Hardrada	Feb-26-10 01:10 PM	#107
- we were anti practically everything the Teas are for. The only comparison	librechik	Feb-26-10 01:18 PM	#110
- New Right VS, 60's new Left	lotuspetal	Feb-26-10 01:46 PM	#112

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