mrs.oroblanco said:
What is different today than 20-40 years ago??
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In an nutshell, that was before all the "isms" and their associated baggage kicked into high gear.
Feminism, idealism, liberalism, multiculturalism, marxism, gay rights, minority rights, immigrant rights, criminal rights, to name just a few.
All of these unhealthy ideals were held in check with the contempt that they deserve for generations, but with the spawning of the hippy movement in the mid 1960's, which preached "do what you want, when you want, however you want to do it", that began to change.
Instead of collectively doing whats best for the country as a whole, as any healthy society does, we have let ourselves become fractured - With everyone one and every group, it seems, caring only about whats best for them.
We have become divided, as if by a chasm on the moon, by race, ethnicity, religion, class, sexual preferences, language, customs, culture, heritage ,,, And theres no end in sight, with other special interest groups sprouting up like poison mushrooms on a dank forest floor, all demanding that their views be put out front.
So the common bonds which have historically formed what is known as a "country" - Namely common language, religion, race, customs, culture & heritage ... Mean nothing now to so many people.
They are in it for themselves, or their particular ethnic/religious group - Welcome to the joys of "multiculturalism", the daddy of all isms and one of, if not thee, most pronounced and drastic failures this world has ever known ,,, And just another term for "social anarchy".
So its little wonder that these partisan, myopic views are picked up by children, and we see the increasing behavioral problems that are becoming the norm - As they go through the natural process of trying to figure out their place in this society they become boggled out and baffled, and strike out at anyone who doesn't treat them as the center of the universe that they have grown up believing they are.