REVENGE OF THE 60S RADICALS

[Will]

I graduated from high school in 1968, the best known year of the
fabled ‘60s decade. My generation was known as the “hippy
generation,” a generation characterized by drugs, anti-war
demonstrations, and long greasy hair. Suffice it to say that a
person can be IN a generation without being OF that generation.
That was me. While my peers were growing their hair and dodging
the draft, I had a crewcut and served in the Marine Corps. As
for drugs, they weren’t even on my radar screen.

I once naively believed that with the election of Ronald Reagan
America had experienced a rebirth of patriotism, respect for the
military, and a return to the traditional values that made
America great. I thought we had finally put the last vestiges
of the ‘60s behind us. Boy was I mistaken. With President
Obama in office, the ‘60s radicals who had not been heard from
in a while crawled out of the woodwork with a vengeance. By
supporting, advising, and guiding Barack Obama, former members
of various organizations such as the misnamed Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) and the even more radical Weathermen
are once again influencing America’s future.

Writing for Townhall magazine, Kathy Jessup had this to say
about the reemerging influence of 60’s radicals on American
politics and culture: “…unlike tie-dye shirts and platform
shoes, the Marxist or Maoist or socialist SDS politics never
went dormant. Former leaders of the original SDS and also its
splinter Weatherman group—labeled ‘a domestic terrorist group’
by the FBI—are installed in academia, organized labor, advocacy
organizations and in the highest levels of the Obama
administration…In fact, the ‘60s college-campus political
phenomenon seeded today’s new left.”

It turns out that in the intervening years, ‘60s radicals have
not just been biding their time. Rather, they have spent their
adult years climbing the career ladder in higher education,
organized labor, and various advocacy groups and using their
positions to prepare for a reemergence once America elected a
president more open to their Marxist views. The grown up
radicals got just what they wanted with the election of Barack
Obama. Those who lived through the ‘60s will recognize the
names of William Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Tom Hayden, and Mark
Rudd—big names among the most radical of ‘60s radicals, and all
sharing various ties to President Obama. If you are too young to
remember these names, search for them on the Internet. Doing so
will be a real eye opener.

There is an old saying that you can tell a lot about a person by
who his friends are. President Obama’s friends are some the
most vociferous anti-American radicals in our nation’s history.
They are Marxists, Maoists, socialists, and communists who hate
America and everything it stands for, and they are helping
establish Obama’s agenda. Next time you find yourself
wondering why President Obama is so anti-military, anti-
Christian, and anti-business, just consider where he gets his
advice. The ‘60s were about more than just burning bras and
draft cards. They were also about burning down the values that
made America great and replacing them with the socialist values
of ‘60s radicals.

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