THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 150, July 9, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THOUGHTS ON BEING PART OF THE BABY BOOM GENERATION:
I FEEL LIKE I'M FIXIN' TO THROW UP
By Tom DeWeese
FULL STORY:
I’m a baby boomer, and that’s a curse. You see, I’m stuck with the idiots from the sixties till my dying day, as they whine and moan
about injustice and mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts, incense, and free love.
The news media, now controlled by baby boomers, keep the myth alive that everyone from that era got high and protested in the
streets, disgorging their revolution to enforce a “new America.” They were revolting all right. The very sight of them turned my
stomach.
The truth is that those who perpetrated the antiwar protests didn’t really care about the Vietnam War, except for how it affected
their draft status. They had no compassion for the pro-freedom forces in South Vietnam who were sacrificing everything to try and
stop the takeover of their part of that country by a very brutal Communist regime. As the protesters carried their Mao signs and
chanted “Che, Che,” their purpose was to rip apart traditional America and rebuild it on the ideals of Mao Tse-tung and Che
Guevara. What ideal was that? Communism.
The tragedy of the sixties was that so many young people simply didn’t understand that their chants and posters and the promised
“new vision” were really in support of a Communist America. Nor did they understand that their actions were helping the
Communists to sentence millions in Southeast Asia to the gulag. Worse, those baby boomers had no sense of the brutal reality of
life under Communism. Most still don’t.
A case in point is Country Joe McDonald. He and his group, “The Fish,” performed the song that became one of the anthems of the
Woodstock Generation. It was called, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag.” Usually, Country Joe would start the song by shouting
to the crowd, “Give me an F!” The other three letters of the cheer would follow as Country Joe would ask, “What’s that spell?” The
crowd would respond by shouting the well-known profanity. Country Joe would then begin the catchy rag which asked “One, two,
three, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam.” It was all so, well, revolutionary.
Country Joe became a major voice in the “revolution.” So what was Joe fighting for? He did help force America to abandon an
anti-Communist ally; resulting in its becoming an enslaved nation. Is that what he wanted? Is that what he hoped would happen?
Is he happy now? Apparently Country Joe doesn’t have a clue.
Recently he was invited to Hanoi to receive a World Peace Music Award. However, Country Joe says he won’t go because, “as a
hippie protest songwriter, I could not exist in Vietnam.” Why on earth not? Isn’t Vietnam now exactly the Communist paradise he
and his buddy protesters wanted it to be? Apparently Joe misunderstood back in the sixties.
“Communism tends to be totalitarian, and I am not for that,” says the self-proclaimed revolutionary. Even worse, his complete
ignorance of Communism’s principles is shocking. “My parents were American Communists for some time, but they left the Party
because of a lack of democratic positions by the Party,” he naïvely admitted.
Like a lot of the baby boomer generation, it seems that Country Joe McDonald just got a thrill from protesting. He had no idea what
he was against or for. It was just a social event to go down to the local protest, carry a sign, and meet some “groovy chicks.”
The consequences of his actions? His nation suffered worldwide disgrace and millions of innocent Vietnamese remain enslaved to
this day. Oh well, it was “kool.” The whole pathetic lot of ‘em make me want to barf!
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Communism: Longterm Enemy
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
War & Peace in the Real World
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots
activist think tank. Headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia, the Center maintains an Internet site at
www.americanpolicy.org. Mailing Address: American Policy Center, 50-A South Third St.
(#1), Warrenton, VA 20186. Telephone: (540) 341-8911.
Copyright 2004 Tom DeWeese
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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