Instead of enduring and loathing, you should have fought the extreme element. Now it characterizes your generation. It's unfortunate, but true....
I see. By who's estimation? Yours? The media's? Phooey - you sound just like a koolaid drinker, lapping up the squeezings of the New York Times. Cogadh, were you among the Protest Warriors in New York last week? If not, then by your own definition, YOU are being defined by the finger-tossing, epithet screeching, unwashed harpies that marched on that Sunday. Like being brushed broadly?