I’d put the date when things started going down the toilet at November 22, 1963. It wasn’t that JFK was a great president, but it was that an insignificant, unimportant nobody changed the world. That demonstrated that it can be done to other insignificant, unimportant nobodies.
I think your right, I have thought the same for a long time now. We lost something that day that is hard to describe and it impacted Society in many ways, a lot of them in a negative way.
I think since that date, then with the war and the other assassinations we have become a more hardened and cynical society where now no matter what happens we are no longer shocked or outraged by much of anything.
I'm confused. Are you speaking of GHW Bush, or LBJ? Or maybe Ari?