Carl Remick wrote:
>
> After all
> the student arm-waving about social justice in the '60s, it's sad
> baby-boomers weren't even able to sustain the modest advances in social
> policy made by the WWII generation.
>
You forget that it was a minority, and not even too large a minority, of people who made those gains. Perhaps the chief misconception of would-be left politics over the last couple of decades is that you need to reach immense numbers of people to bring about important social change.
Carrol