Good lord. The tin-eared infantalization of women represented by this propaganda campaign — you empowered dears who vote “progressive” need the State as your daddy from womb to tomb, and your political agitation on behalf of such profound dependence on government is said to be proof of your independence and authenticity — is absolutely surreal to behold. And yet I have grad school friends, seemingly educated people, who still think it hip to vote for Obama and the Dems. As if hipness today is defined by a willingness to let government run our lives for us — from the size of our soft drinks to the light bulbs we’re required to use to our willingness to let Michelle Obama into our pantries or Barack Obama into our pants.
In the sixties and seventies, the feminists wanted the State out of their vaginas. Today, the establishment feminists insist the State get in there and make a second home of the thing.
You’ve come a long way, baby, indeed.
The schizoid makeup of the hippie coalition always fascinated me: on the one hand, you had a kind of useful and even morally-advantageous libertarianism that I could certainly get behind; but on the other hand, much of what was happening was the New Left infiltrating the movement and using various identity politics sub-movements to gain traction of the entire anti-establishment ethos. And so today doctrinaire Statism and left authoritarianism is still painting itself as anti-establishment and hip. And yet, what the hell is so hip about having Michelle Obama in your pantry and Barack Obama all up in your cooz?
The operators working the White House switchboard have long since been instructed not to answer when Inigo Montoya calls. Otherwise “empowered” would be only the latest topic for a long and educational conversation.
I knew a lot of hippies back in the day. These people aren’t hippies. Hippies want to be left alone, want everyone to do their own thing, follow thier bliss and all that Hallmark card bullshit.
The people who are in charge now are Commies or Nazis or what-have-you. They are deceivers, they are not hippies any more than Charles Manson was a hippy.
BOOM!
– Leigh took the link right out of my keyboards mouth. :)
– As mentioned last night, If Golden boy looses to much more of the press the whole house of statist cards and identity politics is going to come crashing down.
Barack Obama all up in your cooz?
well baracky’s real richard ain’t he
– “Dick Gregory steps on his dong again, asking a legitimate question for a change. (And pays for it.)
leigh
Yep, flower children wanted to establish communes & grow veggies & pot and macrame hammocks and just have The Man leave ’em alone.
They were quaint and naive. Nothing like these Maoists.
Ferguson’s take gives Obama far too much credit for being far less than prepared. This is all by design, not by accident. And I don’t believe any poll that puts Obama ahead — or at 49% approval — that doesn’t include polling the dead, pets, or illegals. Multiple times.
Now, that’s likely because I am enmeshed in the political, whereas the average citizen only sees or hears Obama when he shows up on local radio or ESPN, talking about anything but what he’s doing in the White House, or when they get a government check.
Maybe that makes him seem “favorable” to half the people in this country, idiots most. But they’d better wake up by November, or we’re through.
the end is near
Newsweek Cover: ‘Hit the Road, Barack – Why We Need a New President’
I didn’t say they were hippies. I said they infiltrated the hippies and rode the anti-establishment wave, mostly ingratiating themselves by inventing the various identity grievance groups.
It’s not a surprise to me that radical leftists rose in the ranks of the hippies because the hippies were largely naive and young, and so were an easy mark for the New Left.
The youth were so busy buying that the establishment was out to get them that they never even saw the tyranny they were embracing. What’s embarrassing is watching some of the Woodstock originals still supporting the New Left, even now that the mask is off.
It’s hard to sing Wooden Ships while you’re stumping for the Imperial Messiah.
Tries to make the lyrics of ‘Wooden Ships’ fit on top of the Star Wars Imperial March… grudgingly agrees with Jeff
It’s hard to sing Wooden Ships while you’re stumping for the Imperial Messiah.
I remember my mom telling me about a German couple who lived in her neighborhood when she was a kid. They just loved Mr. Hitler who saved their country from ruinous inflation. He was going to restore Germany’s greatness, industriousness and honor. Such a man had no designs on the world nor would lift a hand against any fellow German.
IIRC she told me that moved out after America went to war.
There were three types of hippies though.
1.) Were the angry ‘drop out’ hippies who did their own thing and often has a sort of dark semi-criminal grifter manipulator side. Most just wanted to do their own thing but some of these guys went on to be bak robbers and mobster associates. These guys were cynical and many played pretty rough. Maybe 20% of hippies were stand outs and thugs blending in with the hippies partly for cover and partly for prey.
2.) Were the party hippies. Most of these guys got bored and dropped the whole hippy thing and moved on the real life or other party oriented sub cultures. they wanted to hang out an enjoy the groovy view man! Probably 75% of all hipies.
3.) Were the empty creepy naive nihilist hippies who want to be a twisted fanatic and sought out the cults and gurus and faux rebels hoping for a good suicide or fire or night of long knives. A lot of these people went on to become new-age sociopaths. They’d seriously consider killing someone for the sake of pacifism, to awaken their inner self, to see the world burn man, so the victim could be born again, or so Kind Mr. Faceless would notice them. They seemed to hate themselves and wanted to create a new delusional world with different rules to live in and then punish those who rejected their new world. There were thankfully not that many of these. 5% or less. And a lot of them got help before they fell off the world or were recruited into cults that essentially kept them, rented them out, and then robbed them over and over again.
– Whats really fun is listening to all the stories from the 7 million people that were at Woodstock, almost none of whom were even alive then, and most of whom don’t know where the fuck Woodstock is.
wow – he’s really sticking with that Julia bullshit. I thought after he got ridiculed on Twitter for Julia, that maybe the campaign would find a smarter strategy! I’m one of those people who don’t follow Obama’s every move so I didn’t realize he was now doubling down on that
My favorite part was where Julia still gets her SS check every month under Obama, while under Romney her SS check is ruthlessly ripped away. lol
Unless she’s over 65 and on medicare then as Wonka would say, back up – reverse it..
Don’t think those Julias aren’t paying attention.
Pala, your Type 2 hippies were also comprised of a lot of middle-class and trustifarian kids. They didn’t always drop out of school or society. They moved to communes and lived there while they finished school. Garry Trudeau is one of them and gave us “Doonesbury”, whether we wanted it or not. But, yes. Most of them woke up and decided that they didn’t like living in a sty anymore and all the cute chicks took off with the guitar playing guy.
Jeff, we’re kind of saying the same thing. Most of the infiltration was done at colleges and universities. Unfortunately, they are now tenured and running the universities. A lot of the ventures of terrorists like the Weather Underground were bankrolled by the off-spring of the Rockefellers and the likes of other descendants of the old Robber Barons. David Horowitz wrote a great book about the 60’s called “Destructive Generation” that really lays it all out there.
“…..And in case you needed any further proof that the entomology metephore fits….”
– “Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau of Rennes France provides new insight into the lifestyles of the hidden world of the cockroach in the journal Insectes Sociaux. Roaches are highly social, suffer when isolated, recognize members of their own families, and appear to make collective decisions for the greater good of the community,according to the peer review by the BBC in the May issue of Nature. They act in emergent forms of cooperative social structures, not unlike human communes.
– Functioning mostly through chemical cues, they advise their homeboys where to find food and water, and the locations of the best hiding crevices for sleeping. Their strongest instinct seems to be letting each other know how to stay attached to their social network.”
– Sound like any movement you might be familure with?
Paul Krugman immediately posts a column as a take-down of the Ferguson article. Commentors are outraged!! that “Newsweek” would print such “trash”.
‘Trash’ in this case, being the preferred working perjorative for anything that criticizes dear leader.
– Is it just me or has it gotten to the point where the Jug-ears-in-chief’s defense of his record boils down to: “Yeh, well there’s all the stimulous crap and the economy stuff and Obamacare, but I got Bin Laden“.
Pretty much. He can’t run on his record.
BBH, check this out.
If Slate has thrown in the towel, well…
Oh geez…please don’t romanticize hippies.
Hippies are the “if it feels good do it” generation of me. They want to drop out, turn on, and and exist in a life of no responsibility hedonism.
Best argument for abortion ever.
– This passage from that article caught my eye Leigh:
“It is telling that the only real debate this week was between Romney and Ryan’s Medicare policies, not Obama’s.”
– Strange how such things seem to completely escape the legacy media.
Hi, Lee. Where’ve you been?
I’m not romaticizing hippies in the least. Hippies of my generation were non-violent stoners who wanted to get in touch with nature.
Modern hippies? There are no such thing. The granola-heads today are wannabes.
Every fuck’in hippie that ever wanted to live in a commune was merely trying to act all noble and shit. If it was ever suggested the tomato patch needed weeding, the hoe was declared a instrument of the man and what really needed attention was the inner child, and maybe groom a few buds.
The ganja requires love you see…
Still as cheery as ever, I see. Carry on.
BBH, I like this final paragraph:
Hi leigh, thanks for asking. Been on a two week road trip to Canada and a visit with the parents. Eight states and a province in 12 days, from the Oregon coast to Waterton Park Alberta, down thru Yellowstone, and across to Reno. Featured camping, fine dining, hiking and canoeing, a rodeo, golfing, visiting, with some casino action thrown in for the hell of it.
Good times.
There was no joy in returning to California. I wanna move to Montana.
Oh, bite me. ;-)
Love you too, punkin.
I love Montana. You’d be a lot happier there. I was afraid your place had burned up and y’all were high and dry. I’m glad that’s not the case and you were just off having a good time.
From the comments at NR’s link:
“Barack…you didn’t build that road, but hit it anyway”
Well placed!
– Obama’s painted into a very lose-worthy corner. He’s like the guy who’s totally fucked up a project and the boss has called a review. The boss has to choose between a known fuckup and some fresh blood that has the energy, what appears to be an energized base of support, and the background and experience to make a success out of the mess. For the boss it’s a no brainer.
– Even for low information voters this one shouldn’t be tough.
Went to a sporting goods store in Kalispell Mt, saw Jeffs SCAR on the shelf. Asked the guy if they had a waiting period, he said ‘no’. Asked what I’d need to take it home today, he told me ‘a Montana drivers license’.
I wept.
Also? No sales tax. hen the price tag says $23.99, $23.99 is what you pays.
What a fucking concept!
Oops…when, not hen.
Stay away from Missoula, though. That place is overrun with leftist trash these days.
Quite a shame, too, as it’s my dad’s hometown.
In Newport Or I saw some aged hippies with dirty grey ponytails and tie dye standing in front of a Occupy Wall Street banner waving signs for to “honk for peace”.
I flipped’um the bird.
Yeah Mike, the infection is spreading like cancer…
At least in Montana you can still buy the scalpel, and with only a drivers license!
Indeed. When I lived there back in the ’90s, I marveled at how easy it was buy guns.
It’s just a gorgeous place to live. But not for me since I am getting arthritic and I hate shoveling snow.
BBH, that’s funny that you say that about Obama painting himself in a corner. I had said the other day “Paint, corner, some assembly required.”
I lived in Wyoming til the early 80’s, but was too young to appreciate what politicians thought of constitutional rights. Could buy a rifle from the JC Penny catalog in those days.
Stay away from Missoula, though. That place is overrun with leftist trash these days.
althouse
life is sweet in Missoula.
Feh. She lives in Madison. What does she know?
That’s what the teenager up the street is for…
What street? I’d want a spread so I’d need a Bobcat or a duelly with a plow. Probably both.
If you’re going to live in a coffee shop, and consider that the sweet life, don’t really matter where the hell you are does it?
My 82 year old dad makes due in Alberta with a snow plow on his ATV. I ain’t scared…
Right. They dress like hippies. But they aspire to be The Man. And now one of them is The Man.
I wouldn’t be skeered either. I’m kind of the hermit type, so being snowed in is no biggie.
And now one of them is The Man.
And he’s keeping himself down. How ironic is that?
OT but whoa .. director Tony Scott just jumped to his death off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, CA
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/tony-scott-death.html
What’s embarrassing is watching some of the Woodstock originals still supporting the New Left, even now that the mask is off.
Its probably a mistake to presume their motivations were pure back then too. There were a lot of slippery characters of dubious motivations working the sex/drugs/rock and roll gig and taking advantage of the true believers.
Hoffer pretty much nails it in The True Believer.
– Commywood has played the followers of the Cave bear like a fine violin for decades. Same with the music industry.
‘Certin pop singers’ who shall go nameless recognized early on the best path to record/CD sales, and shamelessly exploited it. The long term problem with Leftism is after decades of pretending it addles your brain, and you end up like Chevy Chase.
I just got back from a one week road trip to South Dakota this morning, Lee. Almost decided to extend it to Yellowstone but then couldn’t.
Cheers.
(People should go to the Badlands of SD, btw. Really. Really really.)
Speaking of which, I was in Wyoming for the first time in my life. Saw Devil’s Tower and Gillette.
Gillette is a terrible earth-raping place. Coal trains as far as the eye can see. And a Taco John’s. Which I hadn’t been to for years. Good times.
Pictures.
– Julia at age 67:
– Under Onama’s lsgislative contrils, Julia commits suicide after realizing her entire life has been stage managed to prevent her from achieving anything ‘too successful’ as determined, like every other aspect of her boring, under achieving life, by the benevolent State. At her death her tiny estate is heavily taxed to properly redistribute what little wealth the family has left in order to insure Social Justice!
*legislative control*
“Nancy gets the vapors”
– And just to complete McGehee’s weekend:
– Whats the worst image that could be conjured up from the above link?
(Nancy Pelosi on the floor ‘in congress’.)
*rim shot*
America ..
the one question, the only question is…
WHY SHOULD I VOTE FOR OBAMA
what has he done?
is your life any better..?
is America a better place?
the hippie thing ?
hippies.. old school hippies hated the goverment
“the estabilshment man ..the goverment ” was the enemy
no true hippie would lower his/herself to take a goverment hand out..
This is why I don’t eat breakfast first thing in the morning on Monday.
Nancy Pelosi, on the floor, ‘in congress’
Who, where, and how — that’s a Clue solution, isn’t it?
Cheers bh.
If you’re into camping, Yellowstone is worth a whole week (make reservations early!).
It’s a place unlike any other…