Was it neglect? Was it unloving parents who couldn’t back up strict discipline with love, respect and understanding?
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I’m a boomer and I also wonder the same thing. Having grown up with parents from “the greatest generation” in a time when America was at its best; how?
How did we devolve from the post-war greatness that was America to an Obama-hole country we now endure?
There is always a chance in principle of any generation diving into sin. God has no grandchildren.
It’s ultimate a private soul choice thing. Now God has no trouble whatsoever in gathering souls with certain inclinations and characteristics into certain ages to achieve certain patterns of earthly history. He’s omnipotent and omniscient. But (pace certain Calvinists) there is one thing He will not do, and that is force anybody to stay in sin. That onus is on the souls.
“How did we devolve from the post-war greatness that was America to an Obama-hole country we now endure?”
Part of it’s due to technology and marketing that came of age in the 1950s and early ‘60s. Television, the portable transistor radio, cheap stereos, maybe even paperbacks. This all made the mass transmission of alternative and counter cultural ideas quick and easy.
But even so we still had a common culture. That began to change with the waves of immigration that poured in after the 1965 immigration act. The 90% ‘Anglo-Saxon’ America of 1965 has dwindled to maybe 70%. We are now multi-cultural and multi-racial, with a fragmented culture that is growing ever more divided.