Having lived through the period under discussion, I would offer that while we live in a much better world, it is a much more complex and challenging theological, social, and economic world.  Despite those challenges, I am unwilling to turn back the clock.  

I do not yearn for the "good old days", a reminiscence that only lives in the recess of my memory.  Nor will I surrender my decision making, my democratic way of life, or my faith to some "throw back" authoritarian figure and just hold my breath.  "Of the People. by the people and for the people" calls us to be participants and not observers.  I remember Eldridge Cleaver, "if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem."