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Line 5: − To this day, one of the reasons that politicians tend not to wear facial hair is because some voters can make a negative connection with hippies<ref>{{cite news − |first = Michael − |last = Brus − |title = Beards − |url = http://www.slate.com/id/113390/ − |publisher = Slate − |accessdate = 2007-09-22 − |date = 2001-10-09 − }}</ref><ref>{{cite news − |first = Betsy − |last = Rothstein − |title = Capital Living - Voters want their pols clean shaven − |date = 2006-20-09 − |accessdate = 2007-9-22 − |publisher = The Hill − |url = http://www.socialimage.net/2006_09_20_the_hill.html}}</ref>. − − ==References== − <references />
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It was the capitalistic society in which the hippie was born that gave them financial support. The largesses of their parents and free public handouts helped buoy the idealistic and misguided cultural experiments they attempted. Hippies failed in the end to affect real change since their world view was based on a flawed concept of human nature. They believed that people were willing to live in a lessened state of materialistic ease and were altruistic as opposed to self-interested. This same flaw led to the fall of communism and the failure of all the 1960s communes.
It was the capitalistic society in which the hippie was born that gave them financial support. The largesses of their parents and free public handouts helped buoy the idealistic and misguided cultural experiments they attempted. Hippies failed in the end to affect real change since their world view was based on a flawed concept of human nature. They believed that people were willing to live in a lessened state of materialistic ease and were altruistic as opposed to self-interested. This same flaw led to the fall of communism and the failure of all the 1960s communes.
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