"In a brilliant strategic move, the Ruling Class absorbed the Counterculture and ceded to them the network news, the editorial pages of almost all the major newspapers, Hollywood, and the Ivy League. (How else does one explain the elevation of a domestic terrorist, William Ayers, to the pinnacle of the education elite in America?) One of the first victories of the post-1960s Counterculture was the downfall of President Richard Nixon. That was okay with the Ruling Class. They never liked Tricky Dick anyways.
When Barack Obama was elected, the Counterculture was beyond ecstatic. Nirvana had been reached. Utopia had arrived. So when Tea Partiers began protesting the president's agenda, the Counterculture stared at them like a British colonial official coming upon a strange new tribe -- as if America had been invaded by an alien people who spoke a bizarre language with words like "the Constitution" and "freedom" and "personal responsibility.""
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