Should Liberal Hippies be banished to the dust bin of ridiculous political philosophies??

Answer 1

In most people's minds they have been.

The question is what do we do about the younger generation to whom their message appeals. These folks basically got their way on many economic issues in the 1930s and on the rest of them in the 1960s and ultimately that produced the 1970s, from which we were rescued by Ronald Reagan. I don't think kids today realize just how bad it was before Reagan. Double digit unemployment, double digit inflation.....

Answer 2

No. They have a certain ammount of respectable philosophy, and ideas that are good. All we need to do, is not be afraid to work our minds with something other than an X-Box 360, and see how we can merge those ideas with our own, and actually be a force of progress, rather than the same stagnation that has been going on since as long as I can remember (back into the 70's).

Prime example: Environment and energy - Bio-Fuel:
Pro-
No CFC's or any other greenhouse gasses, totally subverts dependency upon foreign oil by reactivating the agricultural sector of the US, and tapping into the food industry as well, while simultaneously ending a need for federal subsidies and investment in OPEC member states and oil companies.
Con-
No major work has been done to implement it (And, as long as we sit on our duffs griping, nothing will get done)

Answer 3

~Given the phraseology of the question, you have made up your mind about the answer. However, before you continue in your misguided misconception, read a little about the true "hippies" and their philosophies, then look around at the world today. Very few groups can claim the success of an agenda, from civil rights and women's rights to governmental accountability to music, literature and the arts to economic reform that can be attributed in large part or in full to the "hippies". Oh, "hippies" were just the freaks at Haight-Ashbury during "the summer of love", were they? I guess that proves my point. You know nothing of the 60's, do you?


Edit to Romare:
Well said, but you forgot some of the most important ones:
We were right when we went to the polls, on the campaign trail and into the streets , we went to school to study and learn, we read books and we learned to think and reason and we got off our butts and did something about it, and we're still out there doing it today, the real survivors of us at least.

Answer 4

Here's an answer from an old hippie:

We were right about the war in Vietnam. Just like we said, it was all a big lie cooked up by the CIA and the military-industrial complex to enrich a lot of fat cat assholes at the expense of thousands of American families and millions of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese families.
We were right when we said it was illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong.

We were right when we said we couldn’t trust the government to tell us the truth.

We were right back in the 60s when we said we needed alternative energy, an environmentally sustainable life-style, and that we should stop trying to force everyone into the same mold.
We were right about the war in Vietnam. Just like we said, it was all a big lie cooked up by the CIA and the military-industrial complex to enrich a lot of fat cat assholes at the expense of thousands of American families and millions of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese families. We were right when we said it was illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong.

We were right when we said we couldn’t trust the government to tell us the truth.

We were right back in the 60s when we said we needed alternative energy, an environmentally sustainable life-style, and that we should stop trying to force everyone into the same mold.

We were right when we said we needed to curb the excesses of capitalism or the gap between rich and poor would become a divisive and oppressive nightmare.

We were right when we said that prohibition would not work and that the laws against drugs do more harm than the drugs themselves ever could.

We were right when we said that Nixon was a rat and a crook, and that the CIA was running heroin in Vietnam.

We were right when we said that Reagan was a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a disaster for America.

We were right when we said trickle-down economics was a bullshit greedhead rip-off of the poor.

We were right when we said they were torturing and murdering innocent people in SE Asia, South America, Central America and elsewhere, and that we were training foreign armies to do those things at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

We were right when we said that Wall Street, the government, and the military-industrial complex had formed an evil iron triangle that has a stranglehold on our country and is pushing us inexorably into a state of total war to serve their own nefarious ends.

We were right when we said the MSM was becoming a propaganda machine.

We were right when we said the religious right was filled more with hatred and intolerance than with love or Christian charity.

We were right when we said love is the answer.

We were right when we said workers were being ruthlessly oppressed and unions neutered and pressured out of existence.

We were right when we said the government was spying on American citizens.

We were right when we said we were sending too many people to prison for all the wrong things.

We were right when we said that the government wants to take away our civil rights.

We were right when we said the Republics were bible-totin’ fascists with fake smiles and daggers up their sleeves.

We were right when we said that we all deserve to be freer but that the government intended to make us less so.

We were right when we said that there is something bad wrong with a government that spies on Quakers, peaceniks, and the guy who wrote All You Need is Love.

And you think WE should be sent to the dustbin? That’s almost funny – except that it isn’t.

Where is the respect? Where’s the love? Where is the acknowledgement that we are the leading edge of thought? Where is the admission that WE WERE RIGHT?

Answer 5

Let's banish all forms of idiotic, ridiculous ideology to the "dustbin".

Oh wait, that would require us to discard Conservatism, Authoritarianism, ideological extremism in any form whatsoever, Christianity, Judaism, Islam..in fact, religion and politics would disappear forever..not so bad of an idea, I guess

Answer 6

provided that's a ethical crucial that folk help those in choose. that's a ethical impetrative that equivalent justice is secured for all. that's needed that we be good stewards of our international and pass away it extra powerful for our babies. that's obvious that slightly help is going a protracted way - rather for babies - practise, food, risk-free practices, and clinical care. Few human beings could argue with any of that, yet Liberals have faith that performing on those subject concerns at the same time via government is valid and the perfect option. Conservatives have faith that if it is going to be carried out via government then it is going to no longer be carried out in any respect. So, liberals have labored to strengthen rights to women folk and minorities - people who might desire to have had the comparable rights as everybody else yet did no longer. labored to advance hundreds of thousands out of poverty - no longer purely with hand outs yet with practise, and extra powerful community standards. Liberals labored to grant a dignified retirement for those too previous or infirm to earn their very own way any extra. Liberals labored to freshen up the ambience. pollution replace into so undesirable 50-60 years in the past that a poisonous cloud very nearly wiped out an entire city in PA. Liberals labored to make products (rather autos) safer. each twelve months extra miles are pushed and much less human beings die as as a results of vehicle risk-free practices rules. Liberals have faith those reforms have been needed to our united states of america and can desire to no longer have been performed without government. Conservatives stood interior the way of all of those reforms - no longer as a results of fact they did no longer think of the reforms have been mandatory, (properly no longer all of them besides) yet as a results of fact they fused to settle for the government as valid tool of those reforms.

Answer 7

Okay.. So Liberalism is a mental disorder. That is why their logic can never be explained.
Socialism suppresses individual initiative and never have groups ever done anything inventive. It takes individual genius to do that.
Marxism and Communism are a guaranteed path to tyranny.
Unfortunately, there is no dust bin large enough to contain all the foolish individuals that are STUPID enough to buy into the specious arguments of evil tyrants.

Answer 8

Hippie was never a political philosophy, but it was a buzz word for a life style revolving around recreational drug use, folk and rock music, and protest of the Vietnam War.

Answer 9

No.
But Liberal Hippies and Anti-War Traitors should all be GIVEN BATHES.
Liberal Hippies just set around and smell their own stink, while they wait for their welfare check to come in.

Pass a law that liberals must take baths, at least once a year.

Answer 10

I think you should be banished to the playpen of toddlers with that kind of retarded question.