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"It all started when Bill Clinton’s tawdry affair with Monica Lewinsky and subsequent perjury was dismissed by the main stream media. Once you can ignore things that most Americans still find disgusting or trivialize them it was a slippery slope to now where obvious criminal acts by politicians are ignored or completely glossed over."

That event was actually many years into the process of cultural transformation. When I look back for the start of it all, I think of the New Left movement of the sixties. I think of the people - the student radicals - I new then, and what they believed, and everything has unfolded quite logically from their beliefs.

Of course, there were earlier seeds, and the New Left did not spring from a vacuum, but that was when it started to gain critical mass, and a significant portion of American youth were permanently radicalized. Now those people are running things, and they've spawned a whole generation to carry things forward.