Generation L and its fearful future (gen Lucky's luck running out)

FT ^ | 01/12/09 | Gideon Rachman

[ansel12]

“You may have had to do without, but you were able to buy groceries.”

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In my household with my single mom we couldn’t always buy food, sometimes it was rice or boiled cornmeal, sometimes it was nothing, my sharecropper mother says that she had more food during the depression.

[ffusco]

Yes, my grandparents used to give my Mom 3 bags of bread, lunchmeat, and cooked meats every week. My family never went hungry, but it was because of our grandparents, who were Itlaian imigrants, and saw this country as the best opportunity in the world. My family came to this country in the 50’s on the Andrea Doria with nothing and became land owners in a generation. I don’t speak Italian, I have never protested my government and I proudly fly our flag year-round. Most of the garbage who come here today are useless parasites.They are turning the USA into Brazil.

[the OlLine Rebel]

52% is not an overwhelming margin. Never mind that Nixon is not a paeon of conservative values.

Sorry, but 24yo’s were saying alot. Yes, there were things (started mostly by FDR, but 1 could also blame Wilson and Teddy and Lincoln) passed before hippies had much “real” power, but they were making alot of noise which IS an influence on the elder politicos.

Again, I say a “few” vs. a great many %. Polticos unfortunately tend to go more liberal if only because they feel they need to actually “do” something (a fundamental problem of any government), much less if they believe it.

As for the people generally, what about all the garbage we still hear about how “artificial” and “repressive” the ‘50s were? (Never mind endlessly how great the ‘60s youth were?) So those ‘50s people were really liberal with their pushing of family values and all? I’m confused. It’s all a sham?