Reply #12: The ESTABLISHMENT is the conservative polar of Hippie [View All]

At least it was. I have heard conservatives use the phrase 'liberal establishment' occasionally though, so that was probably a preemptive attempt (meme) to co-opt the possibility of the phrase being used against them again. You don't hear it THAT much though, so I am not sure that maybe for some reason they found it unsuitable to keep trying to pair up the two for some reason.

If you were a hippie, the ESTABLISHMENT was your nemesis. That was for certain.

However, on edit, just for grins I googled 'conservative establishment' and got 719,000 hits, the first of which was an article by DAVID Limbaugh. (Is he being groomed as a hereditary successor when Rush goes to jail?) And for 'liberal establishment' I got 640,000 hits so both memes are out there with CE having the edge at present.

If they see any possible meme developing they will fight to co-opt its use. I mean even if we used Leviathan, they would have an alliterative meme.

I think Leviathan has possibilities though. eh, maybe not.