Yes, it was quite a problem growing up watching things seem to turn in the right direction, with a president resigning in disgrace because he thought himself above the Constitution while Americans seemed to grasp just what the American Dream meant to the world around them, and then after becoming an aldult, watch the process reverse itself, to be derided as part of the low point of American history.

A part of me, (which I'm not at all proud of, since as an older person, I have some idea of the scale of the suffering which is likely) is just waiting to see how the American Dream will survive this time, now that it will take a bit more than a second rate actor and some 24/7 propaganda to bring it back. And that is an interesting note itself - if you had told an American of 1976 that by 2006, 24/7 would be considered a mark of pride of the strength and success of the American Dream, they would have likely asked politely about where did all the free time go, then? They would also likely have considered 'consumer' an insulting way to refer to a citizen such as themselves, but that is a detour.