Comments: What a despicable group of tyrants the freewheeling leftists of the early 1960s have become.
Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight".
Most of them made peace with "the Man" and lived happily ever after. Tom Hayden became a politician. Jerry Garcia had a necktie company. Jane Fonda was as crooked as a dog's hind leg, still is. Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
All a bunch of rats from the start. All they wanted was sex-money-power.
Posted by chasmatic at October 19, 2014 10:53 PM
I think it was thirty years ago, maybe forty, when I started asking my friends who once loudly proclaimed “you can’t legislate morality” when they decided the government could legislate their morality. It was twenty years ago when I stopped asking, although I take the opportunity to ask now and then.
Every proclamation for liberty or freedom or democracy by the Leftists in the 1960s and late was a beard for tyranny.
Posted by Eris Guy at October 20, 2014 4:36 AM
Eris: might I suggest that when you encounter those friends you give 'em a good hard punch in the face? Give them a dose of reality.
That's the nice thing about reality though, consequences are immediate and proportional: a short'n sharp feedback, no room for dithering excuses.
Celebrate Assholes Get a Punch in the Face Day.
Posted by chasmatic at October 20, 2014 5:07 AM
David Dellinger ran off to Vermont and hid out in the Granola Crescent* until the Big Haint claimed him. For all the shouting and arm waiving, no of them amounted to a pile of dog poop.
They did wreck enough stuff to damage the process; it will take a bigger revolt than what they produced to set it right.
*The area in Vermont from Chelsea to Groton to Peacham. Called that by native Vermonters as opposed to Flatlanders. Considered a ghetto. From the name you can figure out who the residents are.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at October 20, 2014 5:38 AM
One thing that almost never gets noticed is that the loudest proponents of "free speech" always had a safety net when they decided to back off. David Dellinger, John Froines, Jane Fonda, Rennie Davis - all of 'em rich, living their entire lives on somebody else's dime. I almost never met any "radicals" that grew up as poor as I did; worrying about the rent had a tendency to focus the mind on more immediate concerns than whether some vague "somebody" had his "rights" impinged upon.
Class resentment? You betcha. No Marxist ever had to teach me about that once I'd listened to their plans for summer vacation for awhile.
Posted by Rob De Witt at October 20, 2014 7:55 AM
Rob, As those fools like to say, "RIGHT ON!" They had a silver spoon shoved up their ass from day one; they never worked for the daily bread.
Their idea of the Socialist Utopia was everybody went on a permanent vacation and the rich would pay for it. The "rich" being everyone but themselves of course.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at October 20, 2014 8:32 AM
And all those rebels, they wanted to rock the boat sooo bad ...until they got into it.
Once they had skin in the game they didn't want anyone else to rock the boat.
Posted by chasmatic at October 20, 2014 9:12 AM
I'm so glad I don't live in a metropolis with a regular job. My hands would be bloody and all the bones broken, and a trail of destroyed faces would follow me. I can barely tolerate anybody.
Posted by ghostsniper at October 20, 2014 9:30 AM
SAMUEL JOHNSON
All intellectual movements arise from leisure.
TOCQUEVILLE
Almost all democratic movements which have troubled the world have been led by the nobility. An elite body can never satisfy the ambitions of all its members; there are always more talents and passions than tasks to deploy and there are bound to be a great number of men who, being unable to rise quickly enough by exploiting the privileges of the group, seek fast promotion by attacking those very privileges.
BURKE
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
ERIC HOFFER
Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
Posted by james wilson at October 20, 2014 10:21 AM
Conservative values. Class Warfare is for dope-smoking commies. Stand on your own. No leeching. No whining. Fuck the hippies.
Posted by chasmatic at October 21, 2014 12:50 AM
james, that's simply because it is the infighting for the 'King 'o the Hill' position that keeps the turmoil going. Anyone that feels the need for someone to rule them deserves a spear point in the throat.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at October 21, 2014 5:34 AM