That in a nutshell is the problem....conservative Boomers let the left win the “moral imagination” of the people....being an intellectual or an artist is as IMPORTANT as being a partner in a law firm or a small business owner...When we reduce everything to economics we end up with the mess we have today...I don’t even call myself a Republican anymore just a traditionalist conservative...Big business can be the most anti-conservative force in American life and why Republicans live and die on that hill is beyond me...
I’m still a Republican, myself, although I find there is a huge abyss between me and people like Myth Romney. I agree with what you say, though- an open sewer with a balanced checkbook is still an open sewer. There were a lot of Boomers who didn’t go to the left, so I generally don’t bash them. But I find they don’t understand much about where my generation is, and since I was raised to respect my elders, I mostly keep silent.