What were the beliefs of the student movement during the Vietnam War?

Question:They couldn't get conscripted, so why were they protesting? Was the war seen immoral to them?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: They couldn't get conscripted, so why were they protesting? Was the war seen immoral to them?

Somebody once said that "if you're not a socialist when you're young, then you don't have a heart. And if you're not a conservative when your old, then you don't have a brain". It has a ring of truth. The educated young with little real-world experience or political influence, typically associate themselves with the underdog, especially where the underdog is in direct conflict with their establishment. I think it's part of the emergence of understanding world issues without yet having had to make their way in the world. It happens with pretty much every generation. It just so happens that the Vietnam War gave the students something concrete to protest about.

the gutless little wan kers were brainwashed.
They were protesting things that they knew nothing about.The North vietnamese had another ally in those protesting little scum sucking sack of sh*t.
They could not even think for themselves. They saw protesting as the IN thing and didnt want to seen as being square of out of touch.

They didn't even know I don't think. Many saw it as a war that we didn't need to be in. My husband was in his Army uniform when we got our marriage license in December of 1969 and as we were crossing the street he was "spit" on by one of these "little imps".

Fears of the draft fueled the popular resistance among some draft age men, and their girl friends. President Nixon reduced the US combat role, and at the same time abolished the draft. An interim process was used for one year (1971), and there after the draft stopped. So did the popular protests.

Who and what led the Movement is a different matter: All kinds of hard core political activists quickly took over student organizations (National Student Association) , or created new ones (SDS, Weatherman, many varieties of Maoist, Stalinist, Trotsky's). An army of ad hoc groups appeared behind which were the old left leaders from pre-war days retailing their same old anti-American beliefs.

At the core of the core of the leaders? Red Diaper Babies--the children of the old Stalinist, Communist Party leaders.

1. red diaper doper baby 99 up, 17 down

The children of leftist intellectual baby boomers, raised from birth on Marxism and a drug tolerant environment, and now in places of political and intellectual influence.

Red diaper doper baby politicians who want to legalize marijuana and tax the successful to support the unproductive.

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