Check any single industry right now & you're gonna find boomers on the top of the heap. During the sixties you would have found people from "the Greatest Generation" in those positions.
Oh, sure we can play the game that academics have always had reds in their numbers, but we all know who the PC elite are, don't we. Revisionism?
I'm not trying to revise anything.
Well, we know that one, too. As I've said time and again, it isn't that bad people don't exist in the past; heck, it isn't even that bad people set the stage for others to act upon. What does matter - and the crux of this discussion - is who has broken with the faith and sacrifice of our Fathers and thrown away our national birthright?
There are a percentage of them in every single generation!
You still miss the point...
We agree the bad people are in each generation. We agree that bad people were present and active in the '60s. We agree that many things went on before the arrival of the boomers to set the stage.
Fine.
What you do not see (or won't) is that the generation succession of handing liberty on to heirs was trashed by boomers bent on self-fufillment regardless of cost. As yet, you have ignored the overwhelming deviance (of every stripe) of our g-g-generation. As a conservative (I assume this) the notion of personal responsibility should be paramount in your concept of social order and stability. Of course, that is precisely the missing element in your analysis of the times and, oddly enough, the boomer apologists as well. Seems mighty strange to me that a g-g-generation that refered to itself as the 'me generation' (among other aliases) should be so loath to take any responsibility for the horrendous consequences that their drug use, promiscuity, socialist idealism, rank hypocrisy and total lack of self-control has wrought.
Hey, if it feels good, do it. Love means never having to say you're sorry.