(09-04-2016, 12:23 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-04-2016, 12:19 AM)Galen Wrote: Yes, for the most part, and it never really ended. What happened is that once the question of their fighting in the Vietnam war to their satisfaction and defeated the hated Nixon they then took the rest of the decade off in a cocaine fueled bout of hedonism. By 1982 they all got religion and half of them went back to Christianity. It was the perfect set up for the Culture Wars and the current situation.
very different to our boomers that is for sure.
I suggest that you read Scott Adams' endorsement of Hillary. It will give you an understanding of where the left and the right are right now in the US like few other things will. It will also explain how short sighted Boomers like Eric the Obtuse truly are. If you don't have to put up with this level of idiocy in New Zealand then you are truly fortunate.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises