Back in the 60's anything that represented authority was referred to as "the man". Government, business, maybe even dad all were versions of "the man" and the 60's revolutions were all about undermining the man. Stripping the man of his power or changing him to a her. That generation were true libertarians that believed in free love, free will, free and equal rights, etc..
What is sad is how that movement was hijacked by the man and turned into something so ugly and heinous that today's true hippies are Republicans and Libertarians.
What is just as sad is that normal intelligent people of that generation grew up and are now part of the man's apparatus and they don't even know it.
What is genius is how the man just had to change some semantics and then play a quick shell game and now he is still the man more powerful than ever.
How can people who rallied for free love and free rights, be the same people who now demand that we all wear seat belts, don't use our hands to talk on our phones when we drive, can't own a gun, pay more taxes, and have the state so very involved in all of our lives. 40 years ago, they wanted the man out of their lives and now they fight to get the man more in our lives. How did that happen?
Today they advocate discriminating against white peopel to advance minorities and yet they were the ones who rallied against all discrimination just 40 years ago. How did their common sense get so hijacked?
It is the Democratic party that is known for expanding government and it's power, yet most of the older Democrats were around when they were fighting National Guard troops in Washington to limit government.
It is like The Who said, "...meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."
History has born it out time and time again. One group overthrows another and then becomes like or even worse than the ones they just threw out. It is sad that history has repeated itself so many times and yet we don't get the lesson. I'll say it again for you.
This is the problem with centralized power. When power is concentrated it is more easily manipulated. It is really that simple. When our government got so big is when the BIG BAD Corporations thought, "hey if we can control the head, we can control the body".
I advocate cutting off the head, so to speak, by severely limiting the governments' power. By doing so, we are limiting BIG business power and that is a good thing.
Those same people that, even today, rally against big business. but then argue for a more powerful government via Cap n' Trade, or Healthcare Reform, or anything else they want to do are like a dog chasing its tail. Don't they see that voting to give the government more power, makes the head bigger. The bigger the head the more power the corporations that have it in a headlock get. That was the genius of the man.
If you were a hippy, the man took your causes and made them his own so you would be fighting for him and not against him. Now step back and look at what you have created.
For all you revolutionaries out there, the point is to keep your eye on the ball. The 60's revolutions were about stopping the man from keeping us down. What happened though is that those hippies got too rapped up in their individual issues and couldn't see the forest for the trees. They took on causes like free rights and with a narrow mind, championed those causes right into the mans' lap. Now they are his lap dogs. The real cause was always limiting the power of the government first. Then all the other issues could fall into place.
Our forefather's got it. Rather than replacing one monarchy with another, they scaled it back and contained their own ambitions. They foresaw the perils of power and enacted rules and laws to contain it. They knew the dangers in a large overbearing government and they did their best to forestall that.
We have failed them and ourselves miserably.
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