2007
Soap Box Archives
The
Flower Generation
One morning back in the seventies I was in a drug store
in Berkeley, California buying some item or other I needed and standing at the
cash register was a scroungy hippy with dirty clothes and straggly hair trying
to buy a bottle of cheap wine and he was a few cents short.
Somebody in
line behind him handed him a dime or whatever it was he needed to buy the wine
whereupon the hippy loudly proclaimed, Thank you, brother, the revolution will
be won on Ripple!
What kind of revolution is fueled by rotgut wine? Maybe
a revolution of free love, slackening morals, disdain for authority and embracing
socialistic dogma among other radical and impractical things.
That statement,
Thank you brother, the revolution will be won on Ripple has somewhat personified
the major part of the hippie movement in the 60's and 70's. There were few leaders
and many followers and if you had asked
90% of them why they were marching
in the street they couldn't have told you anything besides they wanted change
and would have been hard pressed to say what those changes should be.
Most
of the longhaired, beaded, dropped out men and women of the flower generation
are now wearing suits and ties, living in the suburbs and raising a family. They
have joined society and forsaken the paths of Chi and Lenin
and now want to
claim their share of the American Dream.
But the spirit of hippyism still
lives on in the universities of America in idealistic, socialist professors who
criticize society and blame the preponderance of the planet's problems on America.
In their fervent desire to foster a new generation of radical faux revolutionists
they belittle Christianity and espouse their own narrow and twisted view of what
America should be. Godless and without moral conscience, an unpenitent, unprotected,
unprincipled nation of arrogant elitists who would tell all the rest of us how
we should think, do away with the military and turn our healthcare system into
a monolithic, bureaucratic nightmare.
The problem with these kinds of
people always has been and always will be that they have no solutions, they have
slogans and buzzwords and the ear of a lapdog media but when it comes to practical
solutions they have nothing.
They will always be a dime short of being able
to pay for their Ripple.
They say, bring all the troops home. Ok I'm all
for that but the problem is that the terrorists will follow them home. What are
you going to do about that? Tell me that before you bring the troops home.
You say, everybody should have healthcare. Ok I¹m all for that but a
healthcare program run by the government would make the Friday the 13th movie
look like Mary Poppins, with people having to wait weeks for treatment. And if
you don't believe that just call someone in Canada and ask them how they like
their government run healthcare system.
They say, we've got to do away
with tax breaks for the rich. Ok all you Congressmen, Senators and high flying
government types who have secreted your wealth off shore, bring it back into the
country and pay taxes on it.
And it could go on and on but you've heard
it all before so I won't belabor the point except to say that I have no interest
in living in a Godless, socialist America where your every move is controlled
by some government
agency and I am an enemy to all those people who want to
turn my country into a disastrous social experiment.
I will fight you
with words and with the pen. I will fight you in the voting booth and with every
facet of my life where I have an opportunity to speak out against your dangerous
folly.
No revolution will ever be won on Ripple.
Pray for our
troops
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
October 26, 2007
