When the 1992 election cycle rolled around, the first President Bush looked so unbeatable that none of the big-name DemocRats were interested in running- thus allowing a little-known corrupt Southern governor to ace the nomination.
We on the right have seen the media's biases for years- and it is finally becoming known to the general public- but back then, the press & entertainment arms of the media shilled, spun, and covered up shamelessly for both Clintons- because they were, and still are, madly in love with them. And nearly no one even noticed, or commented upon this simple fact.
Like you, I worry more about ( God forgive me for using one of the most abused phrases of the last century! ) "the children" than myself-- when I look at the coarsening, dumbing-down, and general degradation of society and popular culture, I despair.
Still, society has always swung a pendulum between extremes, and I have some hope it will swing back.