"Anti-Nationalist Civics"....What?

[JasonBlack]

(07-10-2022, 03:41 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Gun violence and massacres is another pandemic, making everywhere in our country unsafe and all the people afraid. Guns are more and more allowed to be carried everywhere, so intimidation and threat has replaced the love-in friendliness and open trust gained from the 2T. Republicans block all action on this issue, so it just gets worse. The alienation and lonely atomization among youth today, another product of neoliberalism, seems to drive some of them to violence.

We're unlikely to see eye to eye all that much on the ideological stuff, but...what "open trust gained from the 2T?". That was precisely the time America started becoming less trusting and crime and political assassinations increased. It's only in the last few years that crime has gone up a bit because of the craziness, but the murder rate started going up rapidly in the mid 60s, fluctuated in the 80s and didn't start going back down until the 90s. In other words, the 2T and early 3T were the worst of it. Not an environment fostering "openness and trust". Just look at Gen X (or for that matter, any other Nomad generation). Cynicism and mistrust are what they're known for, precisely because a spirit of trust was exactly what their childhoods would not afford them. Trust tends to be reestablished mid-4th turning by the Nomad and Civic generations, not during the 2T. 

I don't want to say the previous 2T didn't have some tremendous benefits, but increasing public trust and togetherness was...not something it deserves credit for. Quite the opposite in fact.