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   I graduated from high school in 1968, the best known year of the   
   fabled ‘60s decade.  My generation was known as the “hippy   
   generation,” a generation characterized by drugs, anti-war   
   demonstrations, and long greasy hair.  Suffice it to say that a   
   person can be IN a generation without being OF that generation.   
   That was me.  While my peers were growing their hair and dodging   
   the draft, I had a crewcut and served in the Marine Corps.  As   
   for drugs, they weren’t even on my radar screen.   
      
   I once naively believed that with the election of Ronald Reagan   
   America had experienced a rebirth of patriotism, respect for the   
   military, and a return to the traditional values that made   
   America great.  I thought we had finally put the last vestiges   
   of the ‘60s behind us.  Boy was I mistaken.  With President   
   Obama in office, the ‘60s radicals who had not been heard from   
   in a while crawled out of the woodwork with a vengeance.  By   
   supporting, advising, and guiding Barack Obama, former members   
   of various organizations such as the misnamed Students for a   
   Democratic Society (SDS) and the even more radical Weathermen   
   are once again influencing America’s future.   
      
   Writing for Townhall magazine, Kathy Jessup had this to say   
   about the reemerging influence of 60’s radicals on American   
   politics and culture: “…unlike tie-dye shirts and platform   
   shoes, the Marxist or Maoist or socialist SDS politics never   
   went dormant.  Former leaders of the original SDS and also its   
   splinter Weatherman group—labeled ‘a domestic terrorist group’   
   by the FBI—are installed in academia, organized labor, advocacy   
   organizations and in the highest levels of the Obama   
   administration…In fact, the ‘60s college-campus political   
   phenomenon seeded today’s new left.”   
      
   It turns out that in the intervening years, ‘60s radicals have   
   not just been biding their time.  Rather, they have spent their   
   adult years climbing the career ladder in higher education,   
   organized labor, and various advocacy groups and using their   
   positions to prepare for a reemergence once America elected a   
   president more open to their Marxist views.  The grown up   
   radicals got just what they wanted with the election of Barack   
   Obama.  Those who lived through the ‘60s will recognize the   
   names of William Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Tom Hayden, and Mark   
   Rudd—big names among the most radical of ‘60s radicals, and all   
   sharing various ties to President Obama. If you are too young to   
   remember these names, search for them on the Internet.  Doing so   
   will be a real eye opener.   
      
   There is an old saying that you can tell a lot about a person by   
   who his friends are.  President Obama’s friends are some the   
   most vociferous anti-American radicals in our nation’s history.   
   They are Marxists, Maoists, socialists, and communists who hate   
   America and everything it stands for, and they are helping   
   establish Obama’s agenda.   Next time you find yourself   
   wondering why President Obama is so anti-military, anti-   
   Christian, and anti-business, just consider where he gets his   
   advice.  The ‘60s were about more than just burning bras and   
   draft cards.  They were also about burning down the values that   
   made America great and replacing them with the socialist values   
   of ‘60s radicals.   
      
   http://patriotupdate.com/revenge-of-the-60s-radicals/   
           
      
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