Your reference to the 1960s overlooks the fact that the Obama voter in 2008, tended to be much younger than the McCain voter; that most of those who are under 40 today, have been brainwashed with Jacobin/Marxist/Collectivist/Egalitarian types of ideas, where those who succeed are demonized & those who fail treated as victims.
This can yet be turned around, but not by failing to understand the pattern of indoctrination. (The reality, of course, is that Collectivist/Egalitarianism Sabotages Human Potential.)
William Flax
I’m not looking so much at the 2008 Obama voter as I am at the “anti-war movement” that began with the Iraq war. It was obvious the ‘60s-’70s militant generation, and their latter-day acolytes, decided to use Iraq as the pretext for a flashback to Vietnam-era activism. When I saw an article early on that fawningly saluted the “return” of Joan Baez, I pretty much realized the old hippies were making a last stab at relevance.