One wonders when was the turning point. When did the lofty ideals of truth, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness turn into complacency, money, and the struggle for power? When did America stop being the brightest beacon of hope? Was it the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, McCarthyism, Bush? Or was it ever anything else? Maybe there were only a few leaps in time when colonists shrugged off their chains and flipped off the red coats, when heady times of free love and bra burning turned into a real rights movement, when blacks finally were given rights, when going to the moon was awesome. Seems like we enter times of crap and disease, where greed and intolerance reigns down seemingly endless, then just in the nick of time redeem ourselves somehow once we realize what idiots we were. One wonders when will be the next turning point.