I hope I am just being paranoid and reactionary, but this is the kind of story that makes me fear for this country’s future. I know every generation has folks like me, but...I dunno, it just seems different.
I don't think that you're being overly paranoid or reactionary at all. A number of things that are going on these days trouble me more acutely than I have been in a very long time. As an example, the popularity of B. Hussein Obama reminds me of Jimmuh Carter's campaign. During those times, women in particular were overjoyed by him, and would talk endlessly about his 'beautiful smile' and 'down to earth manner' and how 'friendly' he seemed....never any comments on his substance, or lack thereof.. Obama appears to have the black and much of the women's vote locked down over his appearance and his vacuous, grand-sounding but ultimately empty speeches. And women are 'fainting' for him, either as a campaign ploy or as real hysteria.....or both.
It is different, because kids have been taught moral relativism and to either hate their own country/be ignorant of their own country.
Our parents ,many of us, and our grandparents wouldn’t stand for this kind of sh1t. The younger kids are taught to despise nationalism, patriotism, pride and individualism, and that everything is okay. If the shift happens, it’s just a reflection of society’s changing morals, which are relative. ‘roll with it’ or be called intolerant, fined, jailed or worse.