"This is a rant about the greed that permeates the American political landscape."

[mzflux]

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[quizzicalsphinx]

He neglects to point out that the dirty fucking hippies grew up to be the generation that implemented a lot of these policies.

Also I liked this routine better when Bill Hicks did it.

[mzflux]

I take it you're referring to ex-hippies growing up and their politics leaning more to the right as they age, a pretty typical phenomenon? Selling out their political idealism and principles for that white picket fence and 2.5 children?

But this is a blanket statement. Plenty of ex-hippies kept their left-leaning attitudes. Ex-hippies helped form the Green Party. Some are now actually serving in Congress and pushing for progressive political legislation. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who considers himself a democratic socialist and provided a strong push for his state's adoption of single-payer health care, is the first who comes to mind.

[romp]

I agree. I live surrounded by hippies who are still hippies. They had great values and kept them.

[mzflux]

If only Bill Hicks hadn't left this world in '94, he might have been around to see Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission burn more hopes to the ground.

[romp]

I took "dirty fucking hippies" to mean the far-left activists, not the mainstream floppy-hat wearing hippies.