Tea Party activists....are they the new 'Hippies' of this era??

Are the Tea Party members or movement the conservative version of hippies of old?
I mean if they had 'long hair' and listened to 'Janice Joplin' at their rallies...would they indeed be 2010 versions of the 1969 hippies?

And what about Sean Hannity and his 'Freedom concerts'...are they like now the conservitave version of hippies?

Or are they just loud mouth bigots?

I think the courts have tooken a lot out of activism...seems everythings settled in the courts now...

Oh well, just a thought...

 

As an old hippie, I would say no. And to clarify that, Hell no!

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oh my god i was thinking almost the same thing! there are a lot of similarities. obviously the politics and racism are major differences but i think the tea party may be the "counter"culture revolution of our generation. unfortunately.

 

Ye, maybe it's their turn now...

And another oddity is that the people in power now...were the hippies of old...

And those who are in the tea parties...were the ones in power back then...(or at least their mindset)..

Funny how things go full circle...this is a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone moment....

 

They remind me less of hippies and more of the Nationalsozialismus movement, for a start they’re not really cultural movement but a political one and people with similar political views or inclinations have always been around. The ideology is in some ways similar some ways different to the Nationalsozialismus and a lot of the rhetoric is similar especially to that of that movements early period (attacking big corporations and the wealthy, while pursuing goals that could only increase the power of both).

They don’t have ‘happenings’ but rallies where they shout out slogans and where those of differing views are ‘discouraged’ from attending.

The thing is that ‘business interests’ and the wealthy have always feared more ‘progressive’ governments and are willing to aid things like the ‘tea party’ to fight against them as a supposed ‘popular’ movement (with sympathetic media exposure and financial assistance). At least (so far) they haven’t gone as far as trying to orchestrate a coup against the US government as they did in the ‘business plot’ of 1933 aimed at ousting Franklin D. Roosevelt and stopping the New Deal.

 

Absolutely not. "Hippie" derives from "hip", which means a deep understanding of what is actually going on. In the Tea Party, all I see are simplistic answers to complicated problems, along with a great deal of selfishness.

 

Ye, I think you all are right...I get a sense of a lot of 'hostility' at the tea parties...

And with the right agitator, I could see a tea party turning into a lynch mob...yes...I think you all are right...they just have a different spirit about them....

 

Have you been to any Tea Parties?


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Tea Baggers are selfish assholes.
During the American Revolution the Patriots drank coffee

 

its not a counterculture as it's not countering any culture, its trying to fuel an already known set of beliefs. and they're definitely not hippies cuz the word "hip" means up-to-date, "cool", cutting-edge, or liberal pretty much.

 

Loud
Mouth
Bigots

 

I'm sure if you called one of them a hippie, one would bring out a gun and try to shoot you.
They're the complete opposite of hippies IMO.

 

I'm glad this was shot down before I got here... lol

I would like to share a couple of thoughts that crossed my mind...

Are they going to knit new bras for the women?
Will there be warnings about the bad tic tacs going around??
Will there be bonfires with groups of them holding hands and singing choruses of drill baby drill mixed with verses about killing everyone else and letting god sort them out?
Will 'Make War, Not Love' become the new catch phrase??

If the teabaggers are this generation's 'hippie', I am starting on the wall along the border....

 

No, and nor do I plan on attending any...If I want to hear Tea Party rhetoric, I'll just tune into Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity...


I agree with them however on one thing...taxes...and or government spending...

 

I was just wondering if you had heard them talking to each other.

Both of these are a reality if we are to have a government.

 

In the sense that both hippies and tea baggers want less government in their lives, i suppose they do have things in common. That's a pretty big generalisation, but both hippies and tea baggers have pretty vague politics.

 

I'm a hippie right out of the 60s and I like a big central government. States are the biggest offenders of individual rights.

The teabaggers are pretty up in the air about their agenda, but hippies are pretty settled and specific on their ideas for government, and a lot of this centers around individual rights.

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In a way, it's a counter movement to some of the headway hippies have had in changing our culture and laws over the years. Issues such as environmentalism, equality, eaising of the view on drugs, and a slow movement toward more pacifism (terrorist fears have set this back a bit recently, but the US hasn't come close to committing the amount of men as we did during Vietnam) all have moved in more liberal directions. I wouldn't compare the two beyond that though. Hippies suggested a different way forward, the Tea Party wants to revert to the past.

 

Very good observation.

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Survey of one.

I see no evidence of this.