Thanks for the heads up. I’ve got to watch the full documentary. Only recently have I discovered this filmmaker’s clips. He’s fantastic. I’ll be watching a lot of his work from here on out.

Yes a Left/Right issue... like sending 18 year old kids to Vietnam to be murdered in a senseless war for corporate money. Obviously pot was the main problem at the time.

@@BillySBC 🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼 That's right... In fact, pot was a major factor in fueling the anti-war movement - while the Vietnam War created all kinds of heroin addicts among service members! Ironic, no?

I don't care about Marijuana but there are some studies coming out that show high THC concentrated dabs are actually quite bad for people's brains, especially youth.

@@BillySBC Now that same anti war generation is eager to facilitate a possible war with Russia by proxy In Ukraine. They hated Watergate but, have no qualms of a mass surveillance apparatus the likes we haven’t seen with the East German Stasi. The American Left only care about where the wind blows. The annoyance of the Conservatives is there obsession with upholding the status que that the Left brought about 10 to 20 years prior without an inkling of the ramifications it does to society.

@@Jimmy1982Playlists They're still doing it. THC and CBD benefit those struggling with opioids. States where cannabis is legal have benefited on this issue.

Hippies nowadays mostly vote Republican

Thank you for your comment and for your support and for your service. David Hoffman filmmaker

Thank you for your service sir 🇺🇸.

I've tried cannabis and I didn't like the effects it had on me and have avoided it, but that doesn't mean it should be completely banned like some idiots propose.

Glad to hear you're doing better, man. Keep on keeping on

Great comment. Thank you for your service! I am glad cannabis has helped you. Congrats on being an ex-Republican too! Some never get there.

Thank you for supporting my efforts. Much appreciated. David Hoffman filmmaker

Right but they had no problem with package stores selling all the liquor a person can carry to the town drunk.

@@BillySBC 🎯💯🙏🏼 And now their political campaigns are funded by pharmaceutical companies that have the whole country hooked!

Yet it never blew their minds that nonviolent people were spending _years_ in jail for marijuana charges... SMH

@@BillySBC All drugs have their problems. Now, we have a whole generation of airheads who don't want to do anything.

@@libertylovin2359 You're falling for the further division of the US with that attitude Hook, line, and sinker. I'm sure your political overlords will give you a cookie for towing that line

She is still alive. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Do you ever do follow up interviews with people you interviewed years ago? Did you ever desire to do something like Michael Apted's Up film series?

@@timothybuchser I would like to follow-up with every one of the people I have interviewed. Economically, that is impossible. I have done some then and now videos especially with my heavy-metal teens from a long time ago and with a nine-year-old computer guy 34 years later. And I have been in contact with some of the people who I filmed way back then but I have not had the chance to catch up. I do love the idea though. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker if you could ask her what she meant by “Detroit being the way it is is a conservative problem for another time” We only get the anti liberal view of Detroit

She’s a bitter, hateful person exactly like current conservatives. She’d fit in just fine.

Thank you for your support of my efforts. I appreciate it. David Hoffman filmmaker

Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZfaq is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

Your first sentence sounds dangerous as hell. may i ask which conservative voices you have heard in the last few years?

@@leonhardable I don’t know that you and I use the word “dangerous” the same. I’ve watched an entire party become a cult then a cult of personality over decades. Now it’s at the point where stealing elections and attacking the Capital are all republican taking points. What Republican sources have I got this information from? ALL of them. I’ve followed everything from the early days of Rush Limbaugh to all of the right wing media. I’ve watched countless republican voters support or participate in abhorrent behaviour attacking Walmart, Costco employees spitting in their faces over mask mandates. I’ve watched as they’ve given trillions of dollars in corporate welfare and tax cuts to those who have the most while attacking our allies. I’ve watched the party and it’s voters support nearly all of our enemies. The few conservatives that resemble anything like the lady being interviewed here are nowhere to be found aside from a handful. You’ve got Liz Cheney on her own as the last reminded of a long forgotten time. Now the vile cretins are attacking relentlessly. The party of values now elect child predators, praise Putin wearing shirts saying I’d rather be Russian than Democrat. The Republican Party of Florida just shipped a bunch of immigrants they forced fraudulent documents on to another state so they would be disqualified from the very legal process of immigration. I can think of thousands of reasons anyone voting Republican now have nothing to do with the party this lady belonged to. Republicans used to run on fiscal responsibility yet the last 4 R presidents were handed either SURPLUSES or an economy on the upswing and they’ve managed to bankrupt the treasury 4 times in a row at one point sending the US spiralling towards a recession and near depression. Any Republican that used to have values now support fringe lunatics like Marjorie Taylor Greene. So yeah, aside from the Republicans that attacked our healthcare workers during a global pandemic, literally spitting in their faces after they’d just worked their 100th consecutive 18 hour shift, aside from those that attacked voting registers and vote counters, aside from those that stormed the Capital in an attempted insurrection, that battered the police killing some of them, aside from ALL of the bigot groups like the KKK, Nazis, proud boys, oath keepers and thousands of militia groups all supporting the cult of personality, marches in the streets of the US with white nationalists chanting “soil and blood” and other third reich chants carrying tiki torches, despite supporting a Republican president that’s stolen thousands of government secrets and data I’m sure you have a point. Now it’s YOUR turn. Direct me towards the Republicans that in any way resemble this lady in the interview. If they exist how could they possibly identify with this cult? You want to know what I think is dangerous? Cults. Attacking the Capital and planning to steal the next one. Stealing top secrets from the country. Voting for unqualified mentally disturbed candidates with zero thought to the outcome on our planet. Voting in anti science people that decide our climate change policies or the medical treatments women have access to. Where is all the reason and values that the lady in this video speaks of anywhere in the current Republican Party? You don’t give tax cuts in the middle of a war or recession. Every economists knows this most basic principles. There’s no nationalist agenda, they’ve been trashing the US saying make it great again like the US is a shithole while licking Vladimir Putin’s boots clean. The Republican Party of the 70’s and 80’s would have started McCarthyism up again to round up all the traitors to Russia. How do you think “Law and Order” Republicans would have dealt with Capital insurrectionists? Rubber bullets? Military force? It would have been something like that along with serious long Federal Prison for anyone involved.

@@osiris3550 not what i asked, but thank you.

@@leonhardable WSIGAF

🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼 Absolutely!!!

Avoiding any reference to "kill whitey" would be a start.

We’ve seen what conservative civil rights looks like, and it’s mostly about the right to shoot people, and the right to discriminate if your God demands it.

You're *not* wrong😇!

That was a weak statement by her.

Yes. I am very proud of that. Thank you. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakeramazing. You should be!

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker lol, what! You worked on a Richard Pryor movie? I learn something new every day.

every right wing nutjob we have right now is the byproduct of Reagan and Nixon era conservatives.

And this is a good thing? You sound like a Trumper, not good.

Its horrific and ironic then that her political party will continue their government overreach like they have, dictating our personal freedoms...the fall of roe v wade being the most recent example.

Love your story telling many people I know personally say " the past is over 2024 is here I care too much." I learn more about USA society by watching your documentaries love your channel!!

So True!

Wow...just like *today...*

you must be a leftist.

These attitudes are passed down through generations. There's a butt load of money being poured into outlets to push this onto Gen Z.

MLK was conservative and a Republican! President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and "desegregated" the schools, and Democrats fought against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and "integration". And now, the Democrat Party has managed to install a guy in the White House, who fought for "segregation" and gave former head of the KKK, the grand dragon hiself, Sen. Robert Byrd (D) his eulogy. Don't get it twisted!

The rhetoric has ramped up in intensity but on-campus violence has not reached 1960s levels thankfully.

History repeats itself.

I rather get the impression that it hasn't changed, rather than happening again.

Yes, not happening again, but a continuance of the same ideas and strategies. Except now with wider acceptance among the populace, and a tighter grip on the workings of government.

Keep fighting. They will turn it into a pill that works half as well and cost 10x as much, while making the plant illegal, if you let them.

@@bsh819 absolutely! I'm part of the AKA - American Kratom Association - and we will never stop 🛑

Nice to see a fellow conservative kratom user. I take it more casually but it sure beats the painkillers I used to mess with. I'm fortunate where I live in Canada that the Gov't hasn't tried to make it illegal yet. Hope wherever you are you are able to keep this great product legal and easily accessible

Conservatives actually used to be good people.

​@@narlywaves2371The folks who hate poor people tend to be on the left

@@narlywaves2371 Not much has changed, don't let the media and the all the "conservative" bleach drinkers on Facebook convince you otherwise, the real world is still very much the real world.

Yes but the contention that this woman is making, that people on the "Left" were the only ones getting high... How many conservatives were heavy drinkers at that time? A whole lot were.

I doubt your son rejected them just because you did.

@@internetargumentchampion78 Spoke the exact words on my mind.

@@internetargumentchampion78 your opinion is worth about 2 cents

Many of us didn't drink either. I worked around it in all my younger years As a cocktail Waitress and also a vocalist in bands in Chicago. It just didn't appeal to me. I always wanted to be in control of my body

Friendly debate was more common in the 1900’s when talking politics. Emotions were saved for religious debates, back then.

It's disturbing to me how much more polarized, divided, and emotional we've become in just the past decade. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if political discourse escalated to mass civil unrest and outright violence if we continue on the path we're on.

@@ManScoutsofAmerica No it wasn't. Civil Rights movement faced violent beat downs. Kent State saw us shooting our own, while sending poor people off to die in a futile war. There were plenty of angry emotional racist whites. It was just more accepted and normalized to be an angry racist white person at the time.

The crux of the matter though is that beyond all the debates (friendly and otherwise) is having policy enacted. And if you have to bear the brunt of that, there's going to be hostility. Party conversation is fine (and so much the more interesting to talk to people who give new modes of thinking), but that is more in choosing for myself than choosing for others.

@@quintessenceSL Who would you vote for? A) this person who is calmly stating their position of which you may disagree, or B) someone screeching, posting hashtags, being inflammatory on social media, but whose position you maximally agree with. I think most people would choose the latter, but what about you?

does having political beliefs of any kind make someone an ideologue?

@@KA-rp5uh good point, either we’re all ideologue’s or opinionated

BDE.

The irony is communism is a western colonialist ideology on steroids. To hell with communism!

Capitalism

@@NoonyJW Capitalism is the very Imperialism the OP described that Africa was destroyed by. I wish they gave Africa actual democracy, so they didn't feel the need to run to communism. But that promised democracy is really never given!

communism is awful and isn't good.

Capitalism is different from Imperialism. One is a political system, whereas the other is an economic system. The fact that the political system practised by colonialists was evil does not discount the gains made by capitalism - which is the only force known to have lifted the largest numbers of people from poverty. Africa should not have thrown the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.

No it wasn't. Our forefathers grew hemp. The cotton industry lobbied to get it banned due to it being projected to outsell all cotton products. The plantations fought like hell to outlaw it for their own profits. Read more books

lynn S: Actually, it was a stigma against the black community, and in particula, black musicians, as most drug stigma starts. Perhaps you should look in to a little film called "Reefer Madness" from 1936.

Yeah, she's a white woman who sure likes the rules that criminalize black and brown people.

@@Vandereardenyep but it was both. Notice I said the codes(language) are always changing throughout history. Mexican, liberal, hippie, black, democrat ect. It's always a specific group tied to it. Thanks for the📗 suggestion! I recently read:Mexicans and the origins of Marijuana prohibition in the United States:A reassessment.

🎯🎯🎯💯👏🏼

Because our politics never moved on from the 60's. It's best reflected in Reagan, who seemed the poster child for the "good ol days" for the republicans, (and who until recently almost universally deified him) and modeled their social policies on an almost caricature of the "way things used to be" and the Democrats still pine for the glory days of the 60's when they "broke barriers" and "made change" Which results in the pathological compulsion to progressively break newer boundaries, falling faster and faster down the slippery slope in the name of moral righteousness. Nothing ever stood out more in that regard than Capitol hill democrats, and I forget what they were on about- but all these old 70+ year olds sitting in in congress or the senate, singing kumbaya like it was 1967 all over again.

😂😂

Maybe if the left didn't go so far left....duh. Conservatives were literally minding their business before people wanted cis gender and men having periods. Girl bye. Grow up. People will always resist too much craziness. People are actually traditional whether they're liberal or conservative. You gotta lott learnin to do.

So very well put! Conservative and "neoliberal" (Republican-lite) policies are a total failure. Basically everything this woman says has been debunked in the last several decades. Reaganism destroyed this nation, and led to its logical extreme - Trumpism!

I thank you for the support Joe. It is much appreciated and does encourage me to go on. David Hoffman filmmaker

Wouldn’t being called names be part of that free speech, though?

Nowadays conservatives have no problem with Hendrix. I suppose nowadays woke left has more problems with ‚cultural appropriation‘

🎯💯🙏🏼 Teaching abstinence doesn't work. Trying to incarcerate addiction away doesn't work. A war on drugs certainly doesn't work, and merely creates an incarceration industrialization complex.

you must be TURDeau's little puppet 🤣

Thank you Chris. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Much love sir. I just became a member a minute ago. Can't wait to get more of access to you and your great footage

its not hard to see how people in the 50's and 60's became paranoid about communism when you saw it spreading, and the USSR specifically, sought to forcefully spread it, usually by subversion. Which came to a head with Cuba, right on USA's doorstep.

@@FlameG102 Pot and kettle. The USA was doing a very similar thing only more successfully. As my grandma used to say "They're all at it". Superambitious, narcissistic psychopaths are the only people who have egos big enough to go into politics as a career. Whether under communist or capitalist system Makes some difference but the bottom line is the same. The leaders don't declare their true agenda which is control, power, wealth etc. They all exploit and brutalise the people.

True. She's really good at making an absolutely insane political ethos sound reasonable.

@@Jimmy1982Playlists it's insane to us now, but back then it was a genuine threat. Communism then was also way more expansionist then than now. A lot is said about the us exporting "Democracy" to places that probably didnt need nor want it, but the USSR was doing the same thing. Especially since nukes made it impossible to actually go to war over ideology, it became a game of "who can convert the most people to their cause and outnumber the other"

@@luckydave328 I feel that at a certain point, it was still possible for a "normal" person to want to get into politics out of the belief that they had something to offer and could do right by the public. But that was the era in which everyone, even politicians, had some sort of business they were involved with aside from politics. usually agriculture, but sometimes industry. And when they left office, could in theory, just re-integrate back into the public. but we havent had that kind of environment since probably around the 70's

Thank you for the support Nick. David Hoffman filmmaker

What about the conservative impulse to conserve everything whether it is beneficial or not ? Progressive can be bad but is regressive any better ? It can't be.

Thank you once again Lucie! David

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you for all the "Hoffman Hearts" that have appeared for my comments from days ago! I needed a hug!

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker No. She may have been articulate, but, as the interviewer tried to interject any question, she had to HAVE HER WAY FIRST. The objections she has with THE LEFT(she continually says) are to me cultlike in nature. My sis and I varied in these views. Her resentment and need for power killed her. Sad.

@@luciehanson6250 Absolutely dear Lucie! She got under my skin too!✌

@@JWF99 Glad you've join the conversation. She was an outrage to my senses. Not an ounce of her stave was of inclusion of other folks. Breathe, Lucie. Filmed in the 80s...

Which caused more destruction than any illicit drug, _EVER!_

Yes, after Nixon decided on the "War On Drugs" to go after Black people & "hippies," yeah...*sighs*

@@jackieade6599 He made Mexican's get widely viewed as only smugglers, cartel runners and instilled the belief they are all criminal or illegal aliens. Not even given the decency of being referred to as human beings. I wait for the day when "African" American's can just be American's. Nixon was a liberal republican.

@@Jimmy1982Playlists How many families the justice system has ruined is unfathomable.

@@Phenomental1ty 🎯💯🙏🏼 Absolutely right... one can't even wrap their mind around it!

They didn't? Sorry. I honestly can't tell if that was sarcastic or not... This woman represented Reaganism, which has now reached its logical end-game - Trumpism. Unless the entire non-maga population stands up as one and rejects christo-fascism, this country will be unrecognizable in a few yrs. Women's rights are being destroyed. Republicans are installing a theocracy. They're destroying what's left of the education system, and the ability to teach the truth about slavery, the Holocaust, Jim Crow, etc... they're destroying our voting rights, and making it "legal" for Republican state legislatures to overthrow elections whose results they don't like. "Trickle down economics" destroyed the middle and working class. And on and on. It's even more extreme than this woman's politics.

Absolutely right! Obama and Clinton were _infinitely_ better than Drumpf, Bush I & II, Reagan... it's like they're from different universes!

Absolutely enraging... meanwhile, our generalizations about the right are things they're _proud of!_

Same here, Critters and glad I didn't suffer that response alone!

So many people want freedom but they don't want to fight for it while at the same time obeying the law reasonably. That is at least one thing she said that I agree with.

One thing is a constant with the left is a rejection of God and the putting of man on a pedestal under the guise of "we can do better people" . This isn't a war on conservatives but anything to do with Christianity and its influence on the west and everywhere it went. You're quenching your fists ? Typical of the violent left .

What does she say that upsets you? It is true that the Left pushed for drugs I had to move away from my Home, Oregon a few years ago, thanks to that very agenda So many in my generation (millennial) have perished in the past few years I am centrist, I clench my fists at the narcissism on both sides, always being adamant that they are right, never humble in seeking what is best overall

Her party is certainly happy to employ the music she disapproves of during their rallies these days.

@@lumu76 Despite receiving Cease & Desist letters from the respective artists... 🤣🤣🤣 But, really, who wants to come out on stage to a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent record?!? Quite a conundrum.

🤣🤣🤣 I'm assuming that was sarcasm. You can never tell these days...

@@AJ-ot6qs Totally right. As a hobby scientist, I sure know there is more chances of you getting high on LSD by eating several pieces of bread with mold, than by smoking the actual syntethized thing. It's like the idea of, "injecting weed" it is just a nonsense.

@@AJ-ot6qs 🎯🎯🎯💯

Ya, smoked a lot of weed between 14-18 yrs. Bad choice! Messed me up. Lots of lost opportunities. Although things worked out later (thank God), I wish I had never smoked the cr@p.

I'm sure she would have interesting things to say and would love to interviewer on those subjects. David Hoffman filmmaker

🎯💯🙏🏼 Their perception of the media, like their perception in general, is totally in a different universe... I wonder what world these people are inhabiting, cause it's not this one!

@@Jimmy1982Playlists I think the politically active on either side inhabit two completely different worlds. A few simple word changes gives you two vastly different outlooks, I recommend checking out Ground News to see real examples of this. Let's compare a theoretical story, a family dies from heat stroke while crossing the US/Mexican border. "Undocumented immigrant family dies while crossing the border" vs. "Illegal immigrant family dies during border crossing" Two words are different, and you can instantly tell which one CNN/Fox would run. The undoc vs illegal is obvious, but while vs during paint two different pictures. While offers more of an explanation, as opposed to during which makes it seem more like a consequence. Especially with clickbait titles, you have to think about the language used as you'll get two different interpretations of the same events by subtle differences you aren't even aware of. The interviewee and yourself are correct at the same time. Different media outlets portray vastly different versions of the same story

I am sorry Kim. Thank you for the effort. It is usually found below the video screen on the right side but not on all cell phones. Always on a computer screen though. David Hoffman filmmaker

🎯💯 Absolutely! I became crippled by severe, chronic pain and fatigue in my late teens, early 20s, and cannabis literally saved my life. It also made me much less uptight, much less anxious. Before that, I'd never taken any drugs. When I started passing kidney stones chronically in my late 20s, I was put on heavy pharmaceuticals, and _those_ are truly dangerous. But right-wingers get much of their campaign contributions from Big Pharma, so we never hear about them. Meanwhile, people are doing years in jail for nonviolent, cannabis charges.

This is very true

Not against Marijuana use but am against driving down the road smoking it and endangering everyone around you. That should still be illegal

I lived at one time under some college students who smoked it all the time. Had huge parties even spilling out into the hallway. I skipped 2 job interviews bc of this bc I knew I would be drug tested as a nurse and I just couldn't take the chance of getting a positive test. I never called the cops on them bc I didn't want to ruin their lives but they sure did play heck with mine. I just complained to management

Books out now like The Boy Crisis and it’s in depth description of the toll the women’s movement took on the boys. The author saw himself as one of the prominent theorists in the women’s movement. The degree of isolation and abandonment experienced by boys, especially boys with no male role models at home. The crisis is that they now feel unneeded and irrelevant. We have to reset somehow.

🎯💯 Exactly right! It may be a drug, but the drugs these people ignore while railing about pot makes them totally laughable.

That's true.

Very well said! The Reaganism this lady represented was merely Trumpism with a thin mask of civility... now that the mask has been ripped off, we see these are people who publicly declare themselves proud Christian Nationalists!

And thank you for your 2 cents😃!