In the 1960s, when flower children replaced American traditions with a "feel-good" counter-culture, their rallying cry was: "Don't trust anyone over 30." Now in their declining years, these elderly flower children must surely experience deja vu when they witness the antics of today's post-pubertal do-gooders. Like the flower children, today's young people are driven to correct what they perceive as society's flaws. This is their "Rite of Passage", the sociological term for ritualistic behaviors engaged in as young persons mature into adulthood. The 2016 motto should be "Don't Trust Anyone Under 50." These are Americans who were born after 1965. When this group reached their late teens, the age when youth usually start paying attention to socio/political issues, they found themselves in an America where political correctness, multiculturalism, diversity, social justice, sensitivity training, and other so-called "progressive" positions were already firmly entrenched. In the past, a disagreement with a political position was considered a "difference of opinion." Today it is called "hate speech."

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