How Hippies Became Republicans (Did Our Two Parties Switch Sides?)

In this thought-provoking discussion, Malcolm and Simone Collins explore the surprising ideological shift that has occurred within the Republican Party, transforming it into a haven for anti-establishment and anti-globalist sentiments once associated with hippie culture. The hosts analyze the factors that led to this change, including the Democratic Party's success in capturing major institutions, the ideological capture of corporations, and the rise of global bureaucracies. They also delve into the historical context of party realignments in the United States and the current state of the Republican base, highlighting the disconnect between influencer opinions and voter preferences on key issues like abortion.

[00:00:00] Hello everyone. We are excited to be doing an episode today on hippies being. Republican now,

. This is a really laid back place.

Oh wow, you guys shouldn't be doing that. Don't you know what you're doing to the world? You're playing into the corporate game. See, the corporations are trying to turn you into little Eichmanns so that they can make money. Who are the corporations? The corporations run the entire world, and now they've fooled you into working for them.

Are you serious? We never heard that. The government is using it's corporate ties to make you sell magazines so they can get rich. Those dirty liars! This is a really nice town you have here, that's why the corporations are trying to use you to take it down.

Just hang with us for a bit. We'll fill you in on everything you haven't been told.

It is wild, how we have met this exact archetype of person and had these exact conversations that couth park, used to use as the stereotype of what was annoying about hippies.

At a number of Republican conferences this [00:01:00] year.

Would you like to know more?

. We have been to a number of Republican conferences this year. I'm going to break them down into really three major ones. ARC, which was of UK Republican elites.

Yeah, yeah. Then there was the one in New Hampshire that was for Libertarians. And then there was the one that was for the new underground sort of dissonant right group which was re platform. . So what was really interesting is, yes, the Hoity Toity UK one didn't have this hippie class as much. It definitely had a portion of them, but the other two were just. Pure, like most of the lines I would see in this South Park, making fun of hippie attitudes we saw in this environment.

So if I'm going to go over some, one is the globalist theory, I guess I'd call it, which is to say that there are a number of elites who run large companies [00:02:00] and ostensibly run world politics and the globe. And that you are playing into their hand. If you go get a normal nine to five bureaucratic job.

And that this group has a secret agenda, which is just to use you for your labor. And then in the episode, you might've noticed, Oh, they've come to your town because you have this nice small town and they want to ruin it. So not only that, but that they disproportionately target. Nice, healthy communities which is definitely something you often see in these circles.

And that a lot of people in the world are brainwashed and that if you just hang out with them and they're sociological and ideological bubble, that's how you get out of this brainwashing. And another thing that I think is really interesting is the mood and the vibe from the hippies, especially this era of hippies as depicted by South Park is much more similar to Republican conferences and stuff I've gone to than Democrat ones.

With Democrat ones, it is very [00:03:00] gatekeepy when you enter a community. They want to make sure that you are the right kind of person with the right kind of ideas. Where at most of the Republican conferences, it's more of a, I'm eager to share with you this theory I have about how the world works. Or basically a conspiracy.

Yeah. Very much like in the clip, like you gotta know don't you understand? Like they're trying to turn you into tools of the corporation, man. Yeah. They're trying to, they're trying to save you from something that they think is harmful. And then the second clip I'll play it here, which I think is pretty elucidating.

Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other. Yeah, we'll have one guy who, like, who, like, makes bread. And one guy who, like, looks out for other people's safety. You mean like a baker and a cop? No, no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and, like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?

Yeah, it's called a town. You [00:04:00] kids just haven't been to college yet, but just you wait. This thing is about to get huge!

So in this clip, a misunderstanding of economic systems and a belief that the economic systems we have now exist just to screw over people. And that through, Essentially rebuilding these systems, we can have something that works. Now this isn't as pure was in Republican circles as it was within this isn't as pure an analogy to the older hippie movement.

Because these groups often want to move to, I mentioned a goal, Simone at someone at the libertarian event paid me was like a gold slip of paper. And literally a laminated piece of gold leaf, if I understand correctly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where they are trying to reprint currency, like recreate currency, but I guess have it be backed by something is the idea.

Just literally paying with gold. Yeah, but it's the gold in it isn't worth the price of the currency. They inflate the price of the [00:05:00] currency. Oh, I see. Okay. Like that. It's just not even it's weird. It's just a currency again. That's what they've done is they've recreated currency. The gold standard. No, it's not the gold standard because the gold standard was, it was pinned to the price of gold.

Yeah. It is pinned under the price of gold so that they can make a margin off of selling the current. Oh, I get it. I see what you're saying. Okay. Okay. So it's not the gold standard. No. She's a little dense. I'm sorry, Malcolm. But! Why are we seeing these convergent beliefs? How did this ideological system that is conspiratorially minded, believes in a globalist conspiracy, believes that the globalist conspiracy is disproportionately targeting otherwise wholesome areas and believes that by working bureaucratic jobs, you are serving that global conspiracy and that the world's economic systems in service to that global conspiracy or globalist conspiracy.

How did that move from being a democratic [00:06:00] movement to a predominantly Republican movement? All right. I will give my assumption, my, my hypothesis, and then you'll tell me why it's dumb. Okay. I think it's because ultimately the progressive movement. Democrats, et cetera, were too successful. And because they became so successful, especially among college educated elites and keep in mind a key punchline in the South Park clips is, Oh, you just haven't been to college yet.

You haven't been educated. So we are talking about a group of people. Who went through institutions and also became commercially financially successful and influential within various institutions. These people, they went to college and then they went on and they became lawyers, government workers, policymakers, bureaucrats.

We have another podcast on this where we discussed with Tracy Woodgrain's, how the Republican party is boned because. Basically anyone who can implement policy within government to be a bureaucrat, to be a legislator is probably someone who's gone through this [00:07:00] university system and become progressive.

So it's hard to find like the talent you need to get things done as a Republican, if you are in a position of power, you have a mandate or a majo