"Occupy Wall Street" Is A Glimpse Of What The Late 1960s Must Have Been Like

Ahh, the leftist protest movement. Always looking for a cause. For the left, there is always a cause.
And when there is a cause, there will the left be, causing problems, and exposing themselves to the idiocy of their "agenda".
The latest is the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.
But my take is a little different.
I was born in 1964. A dreadful year in a way because it was the year that ol' Lyndon Johnson won a landslide election, the Democrats gained a stranglehold on congress and the "Great Society" welfare state took root in earnest.
But there was something pesky for the American left.
Because while then President Johnson was carrying the leftist domestic agenda, he increased the United States military involvement is Southeast Asia. Especially in Vietnam.
Again, the left kind of dug some old fellow names Ho Chi Minh. He was the founder of the communist North Vietnam state. These people did not like the fact that the United States was supporting South Vietnam. A corrupt yet pro-American government.
And the spoiled White children of the elite caught the fever. The fever of avoiding getting drafted and being sent to the jungles of Southeast Asia to fight for a corrupt regime in Saigon vs. the pure People's regime of the North.
Yeah, dudes like the Dear Leader, President Obama's "acquaintance", William Ayres, daughters of privilege like Bernadine Dohrn. Oh yeah. These two were like many of their era. Children of privilege that were guilty of their status. And scared to death of going to fight the Vietnam war.
So, I missed the halcyon days of the anti-war movement due to my being born at the right time.
I am thankful that I was not born earlier and might have been sucked up in that self-hatred.
Fast forward to today.
Now we have the Occupy Wall Street crowd and it is a collection of old lefties, labor union allies, washed up Hollyweird people and a collection of malcontents that do not feel they have freeloaded society enough.
So, what do these people want?
Well, according to their website, Occupy Wall Street, it looks like the garden variety list of lefty demands.
There are a total of 13 demands. Notice BTW, that they do not want to legislate any of this. It is demands, dammit!
Well, here are a few of my favorites:

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!
Now I get some of this. But outlawing all credit reporting agencies. I do not get that. Does that mean the people will not be able to access credit at all? Or will there not be credit in the New Utopia?
My particular favorite is open borders. At least these lefties are honest as to what they want. No borders, no nation.
Oh, sorry to disappoint the lefties, but we tried the Equal Rights amendment to the constitution. And it failed to pass under the constitutional framework.
And what do you know. They want a free college education for all. See, I am right about the freeloader aspect of this crowd.
What about the guaranteed "living wage"? What constitutes a "living wage"? It means different things to different people.
This is all absurd not because they can not happen. But it is absurd because once again the American left really believes that the people want to live in a socialist land. That is why they deny that the United States is anything different from any other nation in the world. If we are not different, then we are but as bad as any of the European nations that the American left wants us to become.
The irony is that the left has their dude in the White House. The Dear Leader, President Obama. Much as they had their dude in the 1960s in former President Johnson.
But it is not enough. The left wants to fundamentally discard the United States of America and turn it into some Leftytopia.
And what I am getting out of all this is an acid flashback without the acid. It is the 1960s redux. And it will end up much the same way. And that will not please the American left.