I’m too young to remember the good old days.
When I was growing up, something called “diversity” was all the rage, and the promotion of this “diversity” was considered what made America so great. Al Sharpton was considered a respected political commentator.
Japan, for example, built consumer electronics. America is great because we have a “black president.”
American culture is a moral and aesthetic sewer. The government is unresponsive to our concerns. It seems to be controlled by millionaires who want to dismantle this country, but who say whatever they need to say to get elected, and then do whatever they please.
I can’t remember a time (having entered adulthood around the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal) when I was satisfied with either the government or the economy. This whole setup never seemed right to me.
Something went seriously wrong with America before I was born. It seems to have happened in the 1960s and 1970s. You can see it in pictures: how nice people dressed and looked back then compared to how they look today.
I identify with America as it existed before the Baby Boomers went to college. You can look back at previous generations and marvel at their accomplishments. They “won the West” and built the Panama Canal and put a man on the moon.
The last two generations have utterly squandered their inheritance. They drove America off the cliff.
Certainly, I will live to see the inevitable bankruptcy of this whole rotten society, after it finally collapses under its own weight when the people who live here realize they nothing in common with each other, and get fed up with paying the annual tribute to Washington which can’t do a single thing right.
“I identify with America as it existed before the Baby Boomers went to college. You can look back at previous generations and marvel at their accomplishments. They “won the West” and built the Panama Canal and put a man on the moon.”
Those baby boomers came up with the very computer you are now typing on, and the basis for all of the other technological wizardry we consider part of our daily lives now. So don’t knock all baby boomers. There was a lot of good that came out of the boomer generation along with the bad. Same as our earlier generations who fought our wars and built this country, yet voted en masse for a socialist, FDR. Explain that one. Every generation has its faults and virtues. One should not blanket indict, it is unbecoming.