The Old Civility Versus the New

Psychedelic drug guru Timothy Leary urges a crowd of hippies to “turn on, tune in, and drop out” in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on Jan. 14, 1967. From the late 1960s on, the road has been open for succeeding generations of liberal elites to establish an enormously politicized and self-serving standard of civility. AP Photo/Bob Klein

More and more people are claiming that something has gone wrong with the civil tone in Western societies.

Elites in the United States blame President Donald Trump’s supporters, whom they consider to be crude, ill-mannered bulls in the U.S. china shop. To one degree or another, the same animus exists in Canada and other Western countries such as the UK.