We have more per capita dissidents of various stripes today than in the sixties, yet the voices of these dissidents are drowned by the conservative noise machine, the Faux news, the Glen Becks, right wing bloggers etc. In the sixties, the hippies & co were few and far between, but their presence was amplified by the main stream media.
The managers of the US empire have the capacity to squish any internal dissent and be back for dinner on the same day. Just think of the Battle of Blair Mountain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain. The sixities hippies & co were schoolboys comparing to these guys. And what happened? The Empire struck back and won hands down.
The only time when internal dissidents have any say is when the managers of the empire invite them to the table, and they do it only when they feel threatened by external forces.
Wojtek
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Ricky Page <rfpage2008 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > In the end the
> > only reason for the allowance of any change in a progressive way,
> especially
> > here in the USof A was the total war against the Soviet Union and it's
> allies.
>
> Really? So workers, wildcat strikers, beatniks, hippies, SDSers,
> housewives, civil rights activists, feminists, queers, transgendereds,
> Chicanos, Black Panthers, the disabled, and students had absolutely
> nothing to do with it? Got it. Thanks for the history lesson.
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