Where are the 60s/70s war protesters?

Question

I was just going through CDs, and rediscovered Judy Collins. I was listening to her Bread and Roses, which brought the 60s-early 70s anti-war music back to me. While clearly we have learned many lessons and our soldiers now receive the country's support, the present war is very unpopular according to poll after poll. So where are the antiwar protesters? The antiwar music? Even if today's college students aren't the activists that their Moms and Dads were in the 60s/70s, where are the activists of yesterday? Worried about paying their gasoline bills and real estate taxes? What do you think?

Answer 1

they are grandmom and gradpap

Answer 2

nothing is like it was back then. The music nowadays STINKS ! the Rap should be flushed down the toilet. Country music is not as good. Movies are a shame. No wonder the whole world is going to h**l! God is being left out!! There is your answer!!

Answer 3

too busy with x-box video games---plus there is no draft now all volunteer---whats to protest--they dont have to go

Answer 4

I know a group that are on the street corner in Naples Fl every Friday!!!

If any of you read this, HI! and keep up the good work!!!!

Answer 5

Brain dead from better living through Chemistry.  Too many good drugs.

Answer 6

I think for the most part, that a majority of America doesn't care because they're too busy being concerned with their own lives. People gotta pay the bills and pay their taxes. Any time left over from the hectic work lifestyle of today, is usually spent on hobbies or whatnot.

You also have to consider that the people of today are nothing like the baby boomer's of the 1960's/1970's. Those baby boomer's all stood together, and they fought the war effort with their hearts and souls. They braved viscous beatings and water houses doing what they believed to be morally right and just. They were a different breed of American, that has faded away for the most part due to excessive television and laziness.

The reason why the baby boomer's aren't out there protesting today, is because they're old now and have other things to worry about. And their children are busy playing video games and what not. The reason why almost everyone today who objects the war doesn't do anything, is because they're lazy and/or afraid of the consequences.

You will still see some big protests take place in places like California, but they're peaceful uprisings with protesters holding signs and muttering a phrase of words over and over. Peaceful protesting has never changed a single war in the history of our country. We gained our independence through a bloody war against the British, not by sitting back and complaining over a cup of tea. The only reason why the Vietnam War came to an end was because nearly every single American in our country was totally outraged at that point ten years after the war began. Many people feared what would happen if the war effort didn't come to an end relatively soon in the early 70's.

Television wasn't censored back then, so people could actually see the carnage going on over there. We also lost many, many, casualties in Vietnam, by it's end over 56,000 US forces were killed in action. I think the biggest reason why people did what they did back then, was because they felt it was their obligation to do so. But you won't see that today, this war could rage on for 20 years and people would still just sit back and watch television at the end of their day.

Answer 7

The war of the '60s and 70's was very unpopular like this

one....the antiwar protestors of that day were protesting the

fact that the soldiers and marines were there because they

were forced by draft...this war is all a volunteer military...the

awful fact that our sons and daughter are in harms way cannot

be ignored, however they joined the military by choice..for

protestors to put up such a show of protest would go against what our troops volunteered to do to serve their country.  Also,

the enemy thrives on what the citizens do back home, to

give the enemy this edge would go toward the defeat of our sons and daughters working in a hostile world!

Answer 8

That's an excellent question!  I think, in the last 40 years, the society has become very busy.  There is no longer a single-earner family paradigm in the US and many people are working more than one job.

TV has suppressed any desire to learn, to read, to criticize.  It's a very different place - and a bit sadder.

Answer 9

I think many of us are here, on the Barricades once again fighting for peace and ending Bush's Wars. Others are working for Obama too. The Dixie Chicks are a new musical expression among many others who are standing up once again

Answer 10

Well there is still some of us around but the world is not now what is was then, people still protest but get killed for doing so, the whole world has gone mad, its a different generation out their, but in my heart and in my own way I still protest what bothers me, but does very little these days, Different world.

Answer 11

I think everyone is too worried about being politically correct and too afraid to make up there own mind and do there own thing. I'd like to go on to Good Morning America and run around naked in the background with a nuclear missle hat that I made, a circle with a slash through it painted on my chest and Doc Martens with spikes on em'. That's the activists of my day! Then again I don't care too much about war because you never know what the truth is. You just know what the media is telling you so I could give a c**p. All I know is that killing isn't the answer but it's gonna happen anyway's because theres always gonna be a war w***e president like there's always been. WWBFD? hmmm prolly woulda been frank.

P.S. I luv America. I just don't like drab conformity! Oh, and there called Baby Boomers... thanks for the economy and Of course thank you for fighting for mine and everyone elses freedom.

Answer 12

They work for the government, or in natural food stores.

Answer 13

sitting at the beach drinking margaritas....

Answer 14

They are paying taxes and many of them are those Neocons the libs are always whining about.  That's what happens when you grow up and get a brain.

Answer 15

Many of them are retired from government jobs and are drawing a retirement check each month funded by your tax money.

Answer 16

it seems obama has woken them up..his rallys are 30 to 50 thousand...our soldiers only receive lip service..nobody supports them  h**l all we want are our tax cuts which we can borrow from China..with the Dems registering 3 million new voters and Obamas access to internet funds i see him winning handily over the old man..after all Vegas has him at even money

Answer 17

Hopefully they are all dead. Probally all doped up somewhere still thinking the war is going on.

Answer 18

We are here, but anarchists cannot form groups, lobbies, pacs or even have anonymous meetings. That is like wearing matching shirts, Hey! We are Anarchists and we are Against War!

The statement is silly.

When the non-comformist joins with like minded peoples, they call them an anti government insurgents cell,

Mr Jefferson would be detained and encouraged to talk , if he were alive.

Answer 19

Outside getting some fresh air rocking in the rocking chair and sipping tea thru a straw remembering the good old days.(geeze..i cant believe i said that).