Adolescent Intellectuals

Thomas Sowell, RCP, "Adolescent Intellectuals" (read liberals):

Some of the painful consequences of various "liberations" that began in the 1960s have included the disintegration of families, skyrocketing crime rates, falling test scores in school, and record-breaking rates of teenage suicide.

A long downward trend in teenage pregnancy and venereal diseases sharply reversed during the 1960s, starting a new trend of escalating teenage pregnancy and venereal diseases, climaxed later by the AIDS epidemic.

Sometimes bad things happen because of adverse circumstances -- poverty or war, for example. But our post-1960s social disasters occurred during a long period of peace and unprecedented prosperity.

So what's your excuse liberals---it's not your favorite root causes, poverty and racism, it's the culture that's important after all. Something called civilized society. Traditional (gasp) values and inherent rights. And this loss affects the poor most deeply.