Serve the People
[[Robin Palmer]], an ex-[[Youth International Party|Yippie]] had drifted into SDS. Palmer argued, contrary to current SDS thinking, that [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon's]] "[[Silent Majority (Politics)|silent majority]]" did exist. Most Americans, Palmer said, would oppose [[imperialism]], [[militarism]] and [[capitalism]] if they were only shown the truth. Rather, most Americans knew the truth, and supported these ideologies actively and whole-heartedly. One of the [[Old Left|Old Left's]] slogans had been "Serve the People." Convinced Palmer was correct, Jacobs proposed at the June 1968 convention that SDS adopt the slogan "Serve the People Shit" to reflect the public's support for greed and war.