That in a nutshell is the problem....conservative Boomers let the left win the “moral imagination” of the people....being an intellectual or an artist is as IMPORTANT as being a partner in a law firm or a small business owner...When we reduce everything to economics we end up with the mess we have today...I don’t even call myself a Republican anymore just a traditionalist conservative...Big business can be the most anti-conservative force in American life and why Republicans live and die on that hill is beyond me...
I think the culture is more important than the economy....and conservative boomers let the counter cultural left take over education and the culture...we talk about gay marriage but where were outraged conservative boomers when no-fault divorce became the law in state after state..they did not understand that polititcal victories are hollow when you are losing the culture...so even during the Reagan administration conservatives were losing where it counted most - in the culture! And conservative Boomers did nothing about that except whine a lot....we didn’t need the Moral Majority we needed more Breitbarts....this nation has crumbling families and communites our social infrastructure is being demolished so a flat tax is not going ot matter when the people are passed the point of no return...
Keep trying for your RN...this I do know...the Boomers will have not left this a better country...what Gen X and beyond does is anyones guess....our generation will also have to rebuild our Churchs - if we even have that capacity....what I do resent is Boomers referring to Gen Xers as slackers...not all boomers were hippies or draft dodgers..there are a lot of good ones but in the end the conservative boomers lost the culture war and that will be our ultimate undoing as a nation...