After all, many of them fought in Vietnam, and they helped to elect Ronald Reagan. A defining mark of that slice of Bill and Hillary's generation was its claim to moral superiority. And because its hearts were pure, it awarded itself exemption from rules and laws written for less sensitive souls. In the name of civil rights, abortion rights or gay rights, one was entitled to engage in civil disobedience. Even the violence used by the left was of a higher order.
Consensual sex has no moral component.
Whether one does drugs is one's own business. Abortion is a matter of choice, and there exists no objective moral order. One chooses a moral code to suit one's own personality and lifestyle. In the culture, Woodstock triumphed. Hollywood today celebrates values that are the antithesis of the patriotism, courage, fidelity and honor it celebrated only 40 years ago.