I was born when there were only 49 states and Eisenhower was President.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Truman for me, and there were 48. I have the same problem understanding the hate...

probably arising from the changes in the '60s.

I think it's the same mechanism that gives us religion. I don't know exactly what that is, but we see something we can't explain and jump on the first explanation that makes some sort of sense. And that explanation sticks like glue.

It doesn't help if the real explanation involves work on our part.

It didn't hurt anyone when the ancients looked up at the sun and guessed it was Apollo on a flaming chariot. It started to cause trouble with the ruling church when the idea of the solar system came up, but the average person wasn't affected, so the truth would come out slowly.

Now we have the average person not being affected by global warming, so it's easy to deny it. It makes it easier to deny when accepting it means making a lot of personal changes.

Obama and Hillary? Attitudes born in the '60s are as difficult to change as one's belief in God.

Ours, too.