I Hate To Say I Told You So BUT.....

Us left wing, free thinking, tree hugging, antiwar, peace, love, and understanding hippies were right about everything.

We were right about drilling in our seas and now the Gulf of Mexico is filled with oil.

We were right about war and now we are a broken, divided country with debt flowing into a desert drain and soldiers dying for oil and imperialism.

We were right about the corporatization, monopolization, and The Federal Reserve. Now we have Goldman Sachs and the big banks performing daylight robbery whilst infiltrating the highest levels of our government. We have the greatest joke for media on the planet. And we have corporations that are so large if they fail they take down whole portions of our economy.

We were right about our foreign policy and going to other peoples lands for their resources. Hence we had September 11th, 2001. Terrorists didn't attack Norway. They attacked us because we steal the worlds resources under the guise of spreading democracy.

We were right about overfishing our seas and treating animal life well. Now we have depleted fish stocks around the globe and dwindling endangered species in bodies of water around the globe.

We were right about green house gases and the hole in the ozone layer and treating Mother Earth with respect. Now weather conditions around the world are skewed each year, ice caps are melting and Kilimanjaro and many other mountains are growing barren of snow.

We were right about gas guzzling cars and clean energy. Our cities are filled with pollution and the price of oil continues to rob our families. We had the chance to adopt clean energy back under Carter and the big corporations killed the best ideas.

We were right about having healthy pregnancies. We have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and also one of the highest C-section rates. Those doctors need to be able to make those tee times!

We were right about legalizing marijuana. 30 years later and the drug war rages on. Alcohol still kills many more people. Mexico is full of headless corpses. Americas jails (which are now corporate workhouses) are full of our young people. And Columbia our only friend in the drug war is the only South American country that deals with us. The rest have had a Bolivarian Revolution and gone completely left against us as we robbed them of their resources and performed coups in their countries for the last century and a half.

We were right about trusting our leaders. Those leaders lied us into war, stole our retirement savings, and gave away our taxes to their friends. Our current leaders are still entrenched with large corporate interests to the point of making their own leadership nearly ineffective.

We were right about saving the Whales. New research indicates dolphins and whales have an intelligence on par with human beings. Japan, Norway, and other countries continue to slaughter the whales while the U.S. does nothing of serious consequence to enforce the U.N.'s decision to ban commercial whaling.

We were right about religion in government. The alliance of the Christian Coalition and the right wing Republican Party brought us George W. Bush and the two wars he decided to implement. Creationism is being taught in many schools, Church's pay no tax and they actually receive our tax dollars for spreading their religion. Many states actually vote in their Church's. Religious schools are on the rise and public schools are being denied funding.

We were right about the CIA and our media. We now have a dumbed down population that doesn't stir while all these terrible things are implemented in our name. The hippies said don't trust em during Vietnam and they were ignored but thanks to the antiwar movement and people like John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, and Allen Ginsberg the war was eventually stopped. Now the hippies continue to be correct but our military industrial complex continues to expand. Even under the current administration.
We were right about drilling for oil in Alaska and now that formerly unspoiled territory has pipeline's running through it and a sound that is amuck with oil.

We were right about free love. Now we have lecherous senators having sex with prostitutes (who are found hanged) and closet gay congressmen who tap their toes in public restrooms looking for a seedy blowjob. We have poor young women on our streets who become drug addicts and murder victims while the roots of the problem continues to be ignored. The roots being repressed sexuality, lack of education, and terrible upbringings due to our screwed up society.

We were right about feeding the world. World hunger is on the rise and men, women, and children all around the world are dying from disease and starvation. Food and life saving drugs are so corporatized that people are actually not receiving them when they need them. We are now manufacturing genetically engineered seed and injecting cows with Bovine Growth Hormone. Opening the door to mutations and new diseases.

We were right about nuclear power. We have had a reactor melt down on Three Mile Island. We have had Chernobyl. And we have had a nuclear arms race that has wasted trillions of dollars and poisoned our planet.

We were right about a rising police state. We now have cops that use gestapo tactics, who dress like stormtroopers, who use tasers regularly to control the population. We have designated off site protest areas, heat rays, agent provocateurs, and mass arrests of peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders.

We were right about unregulated capitalism. The cream doesn't rise to the top. The crap does. Bad guys get away with their crimes and even get promotions when they lie and steal. While the middle class goes broke. The rich grow richer and pay less tax.

We were right about deregulation. TV, radio, the music industry, big pharma, power companies, cable companies, telecoms. They all fix prices. They all promote inane crapola. They all collude. They all hurt the little guy. They all suck.

We were right about the death penalty. We now have a country that thinks war is the answer and has no problem with the killing of innocent people. We refer to them as collateral damage. The death penalty is social conditioning as our government puts citizens to death. The lesson taught to our children is that some killing is ok. As long as the government does it. This paradox is eating away at our humanity. The death penalty should be abolished and peace and love should be the answer.

Joseph Campbell had it right. The musicians, artists, writers, poets, inventors, and dreamers are the ones who will enlighten us and bring about a true golden age.

We are the liberal left.

We are the hippies.

We are the progressive left.

We are Americas future and only hope.

And our track record of success speaks for itself.
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