Oklalittledixie would be 100% against rock and roll he would use the exact same argument he uses for pot. The decline of civilization etc...

Angryaphid would give serious thought about the merits of womens suffrage(to his defense I think this way now)

John01992 would be looking into amending flag burning to the constitution and spitting on soldiers would be considered patriotic in his mind.

I could see the OP burning his draft card while wearing Birkenstocks.

That would of been right around the time you were a refugee fleeing your Gummo style life in Ohio for the great state of Georgia?

(04-24-2014 06:10 AM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  That would of been right around the time you were a refugee fleeing your Gummo style life in Ohio for the great state of Georgia?

That was back in the day, when a one-eyed man could be king in Georgia.

(04-24-2014 07:52 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 06:10 AM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  That would of been right around the time you were a refugee fleeing your Gummo style life in Ohio for the great state of Georgia?

That was back in the day, when a one-eyed man could be king in Georgia.

Lmao, was that before or after you went to that vanilla ice concert?

WPDAWG08 - Independent-Socialist Party

(04-24-2014 08:46 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  WPDAWG08 - Independent-Socialist Party

Lol, I was just joking but if you think about it the exact same arguments conservatives had against rock and roll in the 50s and 60s are the same they use to combat marijuana reform. Kind of puts things into perspective..

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:46 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  WPDAWG08 - Independent-Socialist Party

Lol, I was just joking but if you think about it the exact same arguments conservatives had against rock and roll in the 50s and 60s are the same they use to combat marijuana reform. Kind of puts things into perspective..

I think we have been over this. I've played in multiple rock and metal bands. I love rock. Rap is what contributes to violence and dysfunction. Rock just leads to sex.

This brings a smile to my face because in 1965 I was working full time in a steel mill and was a member of the United Steel Workers. My father had been the union's local President. I lived in a decidedly Democratic and Irish-Catholic environment. People still cried over Kennedy's assassination. My first Presidential vote, in 1968, was for Hubert Humphrey.

Yet there were some interesting undertows to the political base. The union Democrats generally supported the Vietnam war and hated the Commies. Some spoke highly of Joe McCarthy. They opposed civil rights and the welfare state. They didn't much care for "hippies." The war on women was prosecuted by drunken factory workers beating their wives. Being openly gay could get someone beat near to death.

But while attending college, also full time, I was already rejecting the uber liberal message and when Bobby Kennedy was shot, it didn't have the effect of Jack's death. I vividly recall cheering on the Israeli's during the 1967 Six Day War.

By 1972, I was solidly in the conservative Republican camp and cast my vote for Nixon as a repudiation of Gene McCarthy.

I be wearing a white short sleeve dress shirt, black tie, slacks, have the hair cut high and tight, and perpetually smoking.



I'd have driven my brand new '65 Olds Starfire to the polling station to pull the lever for Goldwater.



Returning home



I'd see the kids



Before sitting down to have another smoke, to pour a scotch, and chat with the wife

I'd have been a Southern Democrat, fighting for the same things I fight for now, and would be paying about 30 cents for a gallon of gas and $1.00 for my cigarettes. I hate inflation.

Oh, and freely kicking the dogshiit out of hippy biitches.

(04-24-2014 09:35 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I be wearing a white short sleeve dress shirt, black tie, slacks, have the hair cut high and tight, and perpetually smoking.



I'd have driven my brand new '65 Olds Starfire to the polling station to pull the lever for Goldwater.



Returning home



I'd see the kids



Before sitting down to have another smoke, to pour a scotch, and chat with the wife

(04-24-2014 09:05 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  [quote='oklalittledixie' pid='10698274' dateline='1398347178']
WPDAWG08 - Independent-Socialist Party

Lol, I was just joking but if you think about it the exact same arguments conservatives had against rock and roll in the 50s and 60s are the same they use to combat marijuana reform. Kind of puts things into perspective..

I think we have been over this. I've played in multiple rock and metal bands. I love rock. Rap is what contributes to violence and dysfunction. Rock just leads to sex.
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I know Dixie but you do not see the parallel b/t this and your wanting a ban on rap and the marijuana prohibition proponent arguments. I remember our many discussions about music and my many troll threads on the topic of nu metal lol

(04-24-2014 09:43 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  I'd have been a Southern Democrat, fighting for the same things I fight for now, and would be paying about 30 cents for a gallon of gas and $1.00 for my cigarettes. I hate inflation.

Nope. Gas was only 18-22 cents a gallon in 1972, so I'm guessing it was less in 65. Gas didn't cross 30 cents until the OPEC oil embargo. At that price you didn't care if your 383 / 427 cubic inch engine drank it down. Go fast!!!

I would've had no choice really. I'd have to be on the side of equality.

(04-24-2014 09:18 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  This brings a smile to my face because in 1965 I was working full time in a steel mill and was a member of the United Steel Workers. My father had been the union's local President. I lived in a decidedly Democratic and Irish-Catholic environment. People still cried over Kennedy's assassination. My first Presidential vote, in 1968, was for Hubert Humphrey.

Yet there were some interesting undertows to the political base. The union Democrats generally supported the Vietnam war and hated the Commies. Some spoke highly of Joe McCarthy. They opposed civil rights and the welfare state. They didn't much care for "hippies." The war on women was prosecuted by drunken factory workers beating their wives. Being openly gay could get someone beat near to death.

But while attending college, also full time, I was already rejecting the uber liberal message and when Bobby Kennedy was shot, it didn't have the effect of Jack's death. I vividly recall cheering on the Israeli's during the 1967 Six Day War.

By 1972, I was solidly in the conservative Republican camp and cast my vote for Nixon as a repudiation of Gene McCarthy.

There aren't many posters here who actually had political stances in 1965.

In 1965 I was working at a bank on Wall Street. I was coming to grips with the crushing defeat my party suffered at the hands of LBJ. Well, actually, the GOP, not the Conservative Party I was registered with at the time. We had a lot more choices of party back then, at least in New York. You could register as a Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal or Socialist.

I had just gone back to college full-time, which meant I had to give up my day job for a full-time job at night. New York at 2AM is populated by a very different group of people than the ones that inhabit it at 2PM.

I was certain in those days that Social Security would not still exist by the time I retired. I was naive enough to believe that trickle down economics actually worked and was a good thing. Even more naively, I believed that the people who argued that trickle down worked also believed that it did.

Being young and inexperienced in politics, I didn't recognize, as Nixon did, that southern Democrats had already started migrating to the GOP, and that this migration would alter the political landscape dramatically. What he didn't recognize was that those southern Democrats didn't want to join him under a big tent. They just wanted his tent. It would still be many years before I could bring myself to vote for a Democrat. But eventually, there wouldn't be any Republicans left to vote for.

(04-24-2014 10:58 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 09:43 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  would be paying about 30 cents for a gallon of gas and $1.00 for my cigarettes. I hate inflation.

Nope. Gas was only 18-22 cents a gallon in 1972, so I'm guessing it was less in 65. Gas didn't cross 30 cents until the OPEC oil embargo.

As the Watergate morass closed in on President Nixon, he told some of his staff (late '73 or early '74) "I can survive anything political, but I can't survive 40 cents for a gallon of gas."

What I'd give, for 40 cents a gallon now.

Put me in 65..and I doubt I'd make to 66. All that free love and drugs schit.

(04-24-2014 09:35 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I be wearing a white short sleeve dress shirt, black tie, slacks, have the hair cut high and tight, and perpetually smoking.



I'd have driven my brand new '65 Olds Starfire to the polling station to pull the lever for Goldwater.



Returning home



I'd see the kids



Before sitting down to have another smoke, to pour a scotch, and chat with the wife

But what about the black man who lives on the other side of town because you don't "like his kind" in your neighborhood?


Why does he have to sit at the back of the bus?


Why does his kid have separate water fountains than yours?


Why can't his kid go to the same college as yours?