How long will it take them to understand that the counter culture of that time didn't accomplish anything;except perhaps the prolonging of the Vietnam conflict? Will they ever be able to understand that the working class in this country had to overcome their abhorance of the counter culture before they stood up and demanded an end to Vietnam? Do they really believe that Jane Fonda's little vacation in Vietnam did anything, but alienate the real people of this country, the working class, and prolonged that war? I think that both the extreme left and the extreme right are destroying this country. But the extreme right is obviously more intelligent than the extreme left: because they have concluded that they have to appeal to the middle to be successful. Both extremes are extremely arrogant in their beliefs. But the extreme left is extremely incompetent as well.
2007-03-17 08:12:58 · 10 answers · asked by LittleLamb 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
On the contrary Coragryph, I believe that if people really want to bring this war to an end, they should do what really has to be done. And what really has to be done is appeal to the middle class. Enlist their aid and stop doing virtually anything and everything to insult and alienate them. I'm sorry to be a realist here, but the extreme left's entire counter culture attitude makes them incapable of appealing to the middle. After all, the middle is the culture. So the antiwar movement will continue to shoot itself in the foot until it's gets over itself and appeals to the middle.
By the way, I've seen quite a few of your answers and I consider you to be one of the sharpest people answering on here.
Keep it up.
2007-03-17 08:32:01 · update #1
So you're saying that the antiwar movement should clean up their act in order to gain more support. I couldn't agree more.
When I see old video of the civil rights movement of the 60's, I see a bunch or ordinary people marching hand in hand and being led by a man in a suit. Martin Luther King always presented himself as a leader should. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him in dreadlocks or wearing a pink dress.
Martin Luther King didn't try to destroy the culture. He demanded to be allowed to join it. I think that's one of the reasons that he's widely recognized as the most successful leader of the civil rights movement.
2007-03-17 09:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by GeauxJoe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How long will it take the leaders of the U.S. to either listen to what the people want and DO THAT, or else stop lying and telling us that this is a government "of the people, by the people, for the people"?
I agree with coragryph - when we see things we don't like, we shouldn't just shut up about it.
2007-03-17 08:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by catrionn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will always, always, be that 10% or less that isn't happy about anything, anywhere, anytime. They must protest in order to make themselves relevent-to themselves. While descent if woven into the very fabric of the republic, our recent form of mass protest has evolved into more of a social event that most folks feel is the price they must pay for living in a true democratic republic. Counterculture has brought us the scourge of drug addiction, a rampant sexually transmitted disease problem, and crime problems nearly out of control. The true source of protest is at the election box where it does some good.
2007-03-17 09:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Rich S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They will never learn. This generation is experienceing the Flashbacks of their drugged hippy parents. Im willing to bet that 90% of those protesting either did so during VietNam or are the offspring of those same cowards.
They destroyed one generation of Veterans, now they are out to destroy another. That is Traitorous
2007-03-17 08:23:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-26 19:09:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They won't. In fact, Jane Fonda recently just came out and spoke at an anti-war protest. They just don't understand the complex geo-political issue, but are rabid with outrage.
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2007-03-17 08:19:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Some weasel school counselor told these mental midgets that their goofball opinion matters.Those wanna be hippies need to go home and bathe.
2007-03-17 08:27:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So, you believe that if people don't like what their government is doing, they should just shut and not mention it?
Doesn't that defeat the entire concept of a goverment of the people, by the people, and for the people?
2007-03-17 08:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Incompetent? That is the very definition of Iraq
2007-03-17 08:17:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
This is all EXTREMELY confusing to me (sarcasm).
2007-03-17 08:17:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋