“Hippies throughout the 1960s and 1970s continually protested and spoke out against the Vietnam war.  Many hippies did not like President Johnson or President Nixon, because of their active role in sending thousands of troops into Vietnam and Cambodia.  Hippies and other student movements and activists would protest and march in the streets with signs that said things such as, “Make Love, Not War” or “U.S. Troops Get Out Of Vietnam” or simply hold up peace signs.  They would also chant and sing through the streets and play music that promoted peace.” [Source.]

But why after 15 years of the destructive and ongoing War on Terror in multiple countries, why when there is even talk of war with Russia, is the leftist peace movement nowhere to be seen? Where are the hand-made signs and the crowds in the streets? Where are the rousing folk songs?

The answer is blowin’ in the wind: The Hippies made love. The left was co-opted by the Sexual Revolution.

It will not rise up against the pro-war Democratic Party because the Party is the only force that keeps them from moral panic. All that love created havoc and guilt. The Party says it’s progress. The Hippies and their descendants now live very complicated lives.

Hippie, peace-loving, anti-war women became corporate slaves with hippie sexual mores. They don’t have the time or energy to care. They even take their cues from Big Brother on TV — that’s how thin the old anti-establishment rhetoric turned out to be. The Hippies sold out themselves and they sold out their country.

It’s not a choice between love and war after all.

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