<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Western Airlines:
marysunshine and tcjack, you are right on.
This country is filled with wimps. The Greatest Generation that Mr. Brokaw wrote of must be seriously ashamed of us. They saved the world and our country for us, and we're doing our darnedest to piss it away.
I personally ascribe it to the hippies of the 60's. All the crap started then, and now it's their kids and grandkids who continue the legacy of failure and stupidity.</font>
Isn't that a little simplistic. After all many of the revered "Greatest Generation" came back to America to lynch black people and stand in school doorways with axes, and many former hippies went on to successful careers in government, business and academia.
I believe that you're trying to cram this issue into a partisan political framework that pleases you. It might interest you to know that many--though not all--of the most narcissistic, I'm too precious to risk flying people that I've talked to are middle-class, suburban Republicans.