[gorush]

From this old freepers perspective...our side lost back in the ‘30’s. If you disagree with that then we lost in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Either way we lost long ago. Winning (or losing) a battle these days is just rearranging chairs on the Titanic. We live in interesting times when it is good to be old. I feel so bad for the youth of today, like I have failed them. But I tried...yet I was part of the cultural degradation prior to being slapped in the face by Rush in 1991. Human nature is so predictable...which is why history repeats itself.

[Carriage Hill]

Witnessing the corrupt Republicans and the criminal Democrats bicker over anything, is like watching two drunks argue over a bar bill tab, on the Titanic. The GOP is just merely the lib-dems’ “away jersey”; the flip-side of the same tarnished coin.

[Sir Napsalot]

Well, I don't truly buy that you (or your generation) did bad and failed today's youth.

It is a collective thing, as we have enjoyed such a long (relatively) peaceful and prosperous time that it seems it is the norm. But throughout history, we know that is rather the exception.

The current debate about why the West has lost, Steyn’s low birth rate being one popular theory. I think it is simply that we grew into complacency and hubris, undeserved too.

[gusty]

You are probably right. The damage was done 80 years ago, and now the bill has come due. As Maggie Thatcher said, Socialism only works until you run out of other people's money. We are close to the point of running out of other people's money. The eighty year gravy train is about to derail.