The New Hippies?
Spectacular delusion from David Brooks at the New York Times: "About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution. Today, another social movement has arisen. The people we loosely call the Tea Partiers also want to destroy the establishment. They also want to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution." That is one of the biggest loads of nonsense I have ever heard. Back in the sixties, people were trying to stop our country from pursuing a war of aggression in which our military killed more than two million civilians. Today, the teabaggers are trying to make the government cut their taxes, because they are too damned greedy to pay their share to keep this country solvent. If you think there is any equivalent between those two things, moral or otherwise, you are crazy. "Di...