Are Hippie Republicans Oxymorons?

I like to think that I am. I love summer festivals that draw in the hippie/gypsy/bohemian subculture. I love psychedelic electronic music too. I got my first baptism by crossdressing nuns while on LSD at a wading pool concert at a summer festival. My 6-eyed Shaman name was inspired by the mascot/logo on every Shpongle album.

I live in a community where the number of hippies and OreGUNians seem to be equal in number, and we coexist nicely.

 

Crossdressing nuns on LSD?

You'd fit in down here just fine.

 

I get that vibe too.

This is kind of like asking if a hispanic, gay, tranny, black, or whatever person being a republican is an oxymoron.

There seems to be a group-think amongst people of political ideologies. The left and right are both guilty of generalizing and stereotyping people by assuming what group they belong to by superficial qualities.

In a way, it reminds me of my stoner friends back in the day who couldn't fathom the fact that I smoked weed and wasn't voting for Kerry; I told them I wasn't voting for Bush, but that didn't matter.

Hope none of you are gonna revoke my Hippie Card.

 

We'll keep you.

I hope you dont mind me calling you out like this, but you can be pretty bad about generalizing. You're not the only one though, liberals and conservatives feel like they have to be at war with each other for whatever reason.

I think there has been a long time attempt by ...whoever..."they"...different factions I suppose..to sow division in America and I hate to see that it has been working so well

I was watching a video earlier of a dad attacking his daughter's abuser and noticed someome in the comments said the dad should be jailed for it and he wasnt the victim, his daughter was, blah blah dumb troll comment sparked a flame war...but the kicker was the person who made the comment was called a liberal by someone..in the way people throw liberal around, you know how some people make it sound like a nasty slur rather than a political affiliation?

What is that? Like he doesnt empathise with the dad of a sexual assault victim, must be a liberal? W.t.f.

I see stuff like that all the time, from both sides of the aisle.

I dunno, it annoys the hell out of me. I needed to vent. This whole post isnt directed at you, shaman, just the part where I pointed out you generalize a fair amount. You can keep your hippie card

 

Far be it from me to do that, since I'm not a hippie myself in the usual sense of the word. I'm a card carrying Democrat, but not an enthusiastic one. I saw, and still see, Hillary as the lesser of evils. I've been to several Rainbow Family gatherings though, and was impressed by the spiritual qualities of the events (which admittedly may not be evident to everybody). There was even a camp in the past my bother told me about:Judgment-free Emotional Support and Uplifting Space (JESUS), which to me sums up the most important of core values. I was attracted to this site by the Rainbow Family thread, and like the free exchange of ideas. Establishment Democrats can be hypocrites, but the Republican Party of late seems to be preaching a mean-spirited, materialistic message that really turns me off, and is definitely the antithesis of what I regard as core hippie values--or I'd say Christian values. In the great bye and bye, when the Republicans and Evangelicals are raptured and the rest of us finally straggle through the Pearly Gates to the great Gathering in the Sky, we'll share the bounties of Jamba from the Heavenly Dumpster, and break bread with prostitutes, drug addicts, lepers, dilapidated hebephrenics, and 500 lb.hairy, cross-eyed lesbian feminists with warts on their noses, missing teeth and bad breath. And it will be Heaven, but I suspect some Republicans (and possibly even an Objectivist Libertarian or two) may think they're in Hell.

 

You know, come to think of it, most Republicans/conservatives are Christian.

Tell me Christ wasn't a hippie...

 

The way I remember it, Nixon was republican and we were not!

 

He wasn't a Hippy, just dressed like one!

 

Within the first couple of years upon joining this website, I have learned that Hip Forums isn't necessarily a hippie community, but rather it is a - quote unquote - "free speech" community where many hippies just happen to congregate, hence the contents that cater heavily to hippies. There are, however, many of us who aren't from the United States, who join Hip Forums for various reasons other than the hippie culture. Many of us, myself included, are not hippies, nor are we part of the Republicans/Democrats US labels. And yet here we are, so Hip Forums is a much more diverse online community than a simple, "hippie or not".

I understand the OP is already aware of all this, so what I find strange is how he(assuming the OP is a "he") still finds it as a strange occurrence. I believe Republicans most likely join the site to voice their opinions, just like everyone else does. I have done the same myself. This isn't about labels. It's about having a place for expression of various opinions, regardless of labels.

 

Sphongle.. I will have to give them another listen. I listen to a ton of electronic music... the latest I've got is some Roger Shah collaboration with another artist but I don't remember the other guy's name right now. It won't come to me, but it's sitting in the car. Sorry.. only slightly off topic!

Anyway... I like to think I'm hip as well, but sometimes I have my doubts.

 

I agree!

 

This divisiveness is a mistake. Don't play into it.

 

Jesus was the original hippie....he was all about PEACE, LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD....helping the poor, the elderly, the children, the hungry and the sick....all of which the republicans hate.

 

The same people that demanded the Crucifixion of Jesus, are the reincarnation of todays republicans....and Trump my bring back crucifixions. Still no cure for stupid.

 

I agree to a point. I read some history books which claimed Jesus was a leader of the Jewish insurgency after the Romans kicked out the Maccabee Judges and replaced them with the Pharisees. To the Jews, the law was most important; and, their Judges were most important. They were angry when the Romans started telling them how to live. I think Jesus did lead a rebellion against Rome. There is more to it than what one reads in the King James book.

 

Doesn't matter. The thread is about questioning the website's having a lot of Republicans posting when the OP thought it was a community for hippies. Of course there are non-American hippies. That's not even the point. The point is that many of us as HF members are not even hippies, and many of us aren't even Americans.