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12/15/2007: "The 1960s destroyed America"
He says what made the '60s distinctive -- as opposed to other pivotal decades such as the post-World War I 1920s, for example -- is "that unique generation of the boomers ... the most prosperous in the history of any organized society anywhere." The boomers weren't just a large cohort, he observes, it engaged in revolutionary actions: "a convulsive rejection of so many values of their parents ... they rejected parental authority, they rejected institutional authority."
And, perhaps most divisively, the decade "was the beginning of deep cynicism about the U.S. government and what it would do to you as much it would it would do for you," Brokaw says.
Indeed, Buchanan, asked by Brokaw if anything good came out of the '60s, had a stark answer: "I don't think much."
[ Buchanan is correct. The 1960s was a time when people inherited unprecedented wealth and, lacking the wisdom to apply it well, became selfish pigs who insisted on extreme rights for everyone so they themselves would not have to have accountability to common sense. It was a gigantic failure and proven Adolf Hitler right: selfishness/individualism, capitalism, communism, globalism and consumerism are the same thing -- the revenge of the masses upon nature through the mechanism of their own selfishness.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/10/tom.brokaw/index.html