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Well, now you're back in my camp.

You seem to have missed my dripping sarcasm.

The boomers are the guilty g-g-generation.

I disagree.

If you're smarting and want to vindicate your personal virtue, feel free.

My position isn't about my personal virtue. I'm trying to get you to understand that the boomer generation is no more, nor less virtuous than the generations before or since. The rise of a media with a louder voice came at a time that allowed the voices of the worst of the boomer generation to become telegraphed. Before the first baby boomer was born, this nation had already begun the slide.

The sum of your arguments are little more than cliches. Every generation thinks the next is falling over the edge and, if true, then the ultimate and causal fault lies in the Garden of Eden. Uh, I don't think that is too useful for the purposes of understanding social change and our nation's mortal danger.

What is true, and what remains unique, is the clear differences between boomer and their parents. When boomers wanted their hedonistic way and rejected social control through rebellion, they called it "the generation gap." The blatantly obvious difference between the two generations is so obtuse that even leftist academics study the division. Unfortunately, the left calls our detour into oblivion as good and 'liberating.'

Today, when apologists (some like yourself) want to minimize the impact of social decay and the distinct culpability of the boomer cohort, they retreat to weak defenses like your mutual guilt argument. Again, this issue is not about stalwart individuals within a generation - it is about the unique character and achievements that define a generation. In that regard, our g-g-generation stands out from all of its progenitors as having broken the links of faith and tradition, trashed Western idealism and done more to destroy America than any previous generation.

"Before the first baby boomer was born, this nation had already begun the slide."

I agree. Even Mark Twain dabbled with ideas of socialism. His "mentor," William Dean Howells was disappointed that Mark Twain backed away from socialistic leanings when a capitalist "robber baron" helped him avoid bankruptcy.

Of course, I'm talking about the turn of the 20th Century, and the socialist model has been marching through the institutions ever since. And that's what we're talking about here -- socialism.

IMO, socialism is nothing more than elective/political monarchy. Those in government are our "betters," and the rest of us are expendable peasants who exist an serve at the pleasure of the elites.

I could go on, but I gotta watch my blood pressure. Suffice it to say that men like Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Eugene Debs, LBJ et al., have done far more to hasten the destruction of this country than the boomers.