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But seriously friend... your trashing of 60s and the Boomers I think is a bit unfair. If you define the Boomers as slackers and hold them responsible for Vietnam and unrest over being drafted, racism and drug abuse, then we should likewise trash the generations from the 30's for bringing us WWII and the generations from the 20's for bringing us a depression. The Boomers were indeed crippled by the Vietnam war. I would suggest that it wasn't so much the boomers who fumbled Vietnam as it was the generations of Johnson and Nixon who failed to give us a clear and impelling reason to win that war, instead just demanding "more troops". And then there's the media. I would also point out that Boomers were the first generation to be raised entirely on television. This media weapon grew of age during the 60s and Boomers were the first to be massively manipulated by pictures of bleeding babies in their living rooms and endless commercials for "extra strength pain relievers". All things considered, it's no wonder so many "tuned out" in one way or another.

All the matters I list were the specific and defining ACTIONS and CHOICES the boomers made and have inflicted on the rest of us. In short, they did this things directly by personal behavior. WWII and the Great Depression had nothing to do with the behavior or folks at home on the farm but their response to what was thrust upon them made them great. The philosophical roots of the boomers maladies do, in fact, go way back, but the issue is the choices and actions of my g-g-generation - that is their craven legacy. The consequences of the nitwits are shared by us all. Not a proud thing, to be sure, but them's is the facts. Some of us flinch (understandable) when confronted with the truth, but others call a spade a spade - historians certainly will. You can be proud of the fact that you're a conservative and in the fray. Like being anti-Nazi in WWII Europe, facing the truth of your circumstances has nothing to do with your personal guilt and everything to do with your honor.