Reply #61: From a long range view..

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I was not a hippy but a young working class mother in the 60's, one of the slots or silents, and I have noticed a profound change in how we think we should respond to those who do not think exactly as ourselves.
Because of so many distortions and a really sad lack of historical education few know that in the 60's people of different views did talk to one another without sarcasm, irony or disdain; sometimes even talked with empathy and understanding. That does not seem so true today. I often feel as though anything that anyone disagrees with is to them open to the most disheartening and mean-spirited response. Often it seems unconscious, just something that they saw on television and assumed that that is the way people talk to one another. We must wake up now. Obama gave us a golden opportunity to begin to think and feel without the prejudices and presumptions that are commercially promoted.
Thanks Nancy for another good one.