Have things gotten really worse, or have I just become an Old Fart?

[Armstead]

199. I stand by my point...But I don't think its generational. Just a.......

issue of basic values. Some people have good values and some people have shitty one...or a mix of them. It's alwesays a diverse spectrum of people.

I remember one of the things that "enabled" this corporate takeover was a shift in attitudes of too many Boomers in the mid-70's, when it shifted from social change to "I have to start with myself" and "work within the system" which opened the door to yuppiedom and the "greed is good" epidemic of the 80's.

Also, in our defense, we were all hammered by problems in the 70's that seemed intractable -- high unemployment, stagflation, the gas wars, earlier versions of the fiscal crisis, and the emergence of the global economy. This make many people afraid, and allowed corporate fascists and their political stooges to begin setting the exploitation of workers, deregulation and other crap into high gear. And people bought into the Orwellian propaganda. "We're merging to protect competition." ..."We're laying people off to protect jobs." etc.

As a result too many Boomers became what they had originally opposed as they got into the system.

And of those who held on to different values and opposed the Supply Side train, we were ineffectual. We never learned how to compete in the marketplace of ideas and politics effectively. So the CONservatives were able to drive the dialogue -- and they still do.