Here we go again. It hasn't stopped.
Civilization is always on trial.
After the Storm By the mid-1970s, the social, political and cultural upheaval of the previous decade had settled down to a dull roar as American society found itself spent from the outpouring of protest and emotion associated with the rights consciousness movements and the Vietnam War. The Watergate scandal and Nixon's subsequent resignation only added to the country's disillusionment and frustration. By the early 1980s, America was eager to ease the hurt of the past and move away from the antagonism. The radical modernists grew up and started families, and while they did not lose their revisionist ideals, their beliefs lost some of the urgency and anger of the past decades. Concurrent with this departure from radicalism was the general shift toward conservatism in the political structure of the nation beginning with Reagan's election in 1980.