I was a founding member of YIPPIE I knew Abbie and Jerry as well as the 50 so people at the core of YIPPIE. David Brooks does not get who we were back them culturally or politically. Fine, i suppose. But to drag TRUMP and CLINTON into the same frame shows his real ignorance of who we were and our intentions. We believed in creative imagination, having fun while trying to wake up the public to how they had been hypnotized and fooled.Marshall McCluan, Che, Grouch Marx and for me, Madame Binh, were our role modes in how to disrupt public conception of revolution. The media's fixation on Abbie and Jerry obscured the people who actually did most of the work. Similar to the how the mainstream media covered the Black Panthers. Too bad Brooks has not talked to Nancy Kurshan (Jerry's partner) or me the out Yippie when homophobia was alive and viral in the New Left as it was in the old left
jim fouratt
The Abbie Hoffman of hte Right: Donald Trump
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there are two books I would recommend if you want to know about Abbie Hoffman :
American Rebel by Marty Jeezer
Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America by Larry "Ratso" Sloman
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I am anticipating reading DID IT by Pat Thomas about Jerry Rubin ,
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