There's so much romanticism of the anti-war 60s that modern liberals are stunned when their current opposition is booed off the stage. Take New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, who had anticipated cheers from the Rockford College graduating audience he spoke to, he received raspberries instead.
My favorite part of all these speeches is when the guy who gets booed thinks it's the end of free speech in America, instead of realizing that those boos were the celebration of free speech. Those who grew up too late to protest in the 1960s, but had to endure endless college professors talking about power to the people, are stunned when their big chance ends in scorn.
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