Russell #26,
If we are going to strart generational nitpicking. I am an early “boomer”, born in 1946. Just because things began to go sour in the `1960s, we are not necessarily to blame, we were not yet in control. Think for a moment who were the leaders back then. JFK, LBJ, Nixon, etc. In both parties the leaders at all levels were members of the beatified “greatest Generation. Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Alan Ginsburg? All members of the WWII generation. the same holds true for the juridicial and media leaders as well. A small noisy fraction of our cohort were gioven excessive media attention for rioting in the streets, following pre-Boomers like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bill Ayers, and others. More of us went to Viet Nam (along with some WW II retreads), and most of us stivedd reasonably hard in schools and factories without incident. I will agree to accept responsibility for the years when we came to political influence, basically beginning dudring the early 1980s to late 1990s. May I invite your generation to accept responsibility for the present?
Actually, I think there has always, in every generation, been a responsible remnant who have carried civilization, while the mass of Whiners and Weiners, have continually declined.