I was born in 1965, and I concur. Something bad happened to us as a nation somewhere along the way. I wish to God we could find out what it was and deal with it. The world of my childhood had its problems, but it was a fundamentally decent place. Watching America slowly crumbling into madness is horrible.
A teenager who has a broken heart will put on a show of toughness and cynicism to mask the pain. He or she will also make reckless decisions based upon emotion — decisions which can have unforeseen aftereffects that last for years. Sometimes these decisions result in disaster.
America is a country with a broken heart.
“I was born in 1965, and I concur. Something bad happened to us as a nation somewhere along the way. I wish to God we could find out what it was and deal with it.”
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It was and is the ascension of the counterculture and the Communist Left. I saw this happening as I grew up, when it became hip to turn the civilized world on it head. Literally, up became down, bad became good, and in, became out. Fascists that they are, among the “progressives”, if you don’t fully subscribe to their fashionable world view, you are uncool, hateful, backwards and/or just plain stupid.
For me, traditional values of heterosexual monogamy, patriotism, wholesome, respectful public discourse (including entertainment), faith in and the primacy of God, are like, “where its at, man”.