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| Source:Michael O'Sullivan- Governor Ronald Reagan (Republican, California) talking about the California Hippies in 1967. |
"Another bit of humour from the gipper against communists"
From Michael O'Sullivan
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
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| Source:AZ Quotes- Governor Ronald Reagan (Republican, California) talking about the California Hippies in 1967. |
From AZ Quotes
"Ronald Reagan versus the Hippies"
From Jonah McSwain
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| Source:The Daily Post- Governor Ronald Reagan (Republican, California) talking about the California Hippies in 1967. |
From Jonah McSwain
There's a lot about Ronald Reagan as a Liberal that I like and respect about his career and his politics. But even though he described his politics as libertarian as late as 1975 when he was already considering another run for President in 1976, there's one aspect about his career that I don't have much respect for. And thats what he thought and how he dealt with he Hippie Movement in the 1960s and 70s.
Ron Reagan essentially treated Hippies as Socialists or Anarchists who were looking to take down America and create some type of a Socialist State or something when in actuality the opposite was true. Ron Reagan basically had this Father Knows Best 1950s view of what America was supposed to be. And anyone who went against that he sort of saw them as Communists working for Russia. Or something crazy like that.
The Hippies of the Boomer Generation were running away from the American establishment, that Ron Reagan was a product of and that was way too conservative for Hippies culturally, otherwise they wouldn't be Hippies. How many Hippies do you know who where suits and ties everywhere they go, as well as sweaters and walk around with pipes that they barley smoke. I mean, the only pipes that Hippies are familiar with have marijuana in them.
In the 1950s and even early 1960s, America was a very conservative society culturally. Sort of Phyllis Sclafly's fundamentalist Christian-Utopia of what she believed America is supposed to be. Culturally there was this feeling that this is how Americans are supposed to live life and if you don't follow this way of life, there's something wrong with you and you are even Un-American. You should be locked away for being Un-American, whatever that is supposed to mean. And that's the America that then Governor Reagan was defending, while putting down the New America that was already forming.
Ron Reagan essentially treated Hippies as Socialists or Anarchists who were looking to take down America and create some type of a Socialist State or something when in actuality the opposite was true. Ron Reagan basically had this Father Knows Best 1950s view of what America was supposed to be. And anyone who went against that he sort of saw them as Communists working for Russia. Or something crazy like that.
The Hippies of the Boomer Generation were running away from the American establishment, that Ron Reagan was a product of and that was way too conservative for Hippies culturally, otherwise they wouldn't be Hippies. How many Hippies do you know who where suits and ties everywhere they go, as well as sweaters and walk around with pipes that they barley smoke. I mean, the only pipes that Hippies are familiar with have marijuana in them.
In the 1950s and even early 1960s, America was a very conservative society culturally. Sort of Phyllis Sclafly's fundamentalist Christian-Utopia of what she believed America is supposed to be. Culturally there was this feeling that this is how Americans are supposed to live life and if you don't follow this way of life, there's something wrong with you and you are even Un-American. You should be locked away for being Un-American, whatever that is supposed to mean. And that's the America that then Governor Reagan was defending, while putting down the New America that was already forming.
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