It was in far better shape, and the liberal boomers decided that wasn't good enough, that they wanted "change." We all know how that turned out. Liberal boomers and liberal millennials are both idiots, but it was liberal boomers who set the whole cultural revolution in motion.
Those liberal boomers were for the most part the privileged children of the upper class. Even milquetoast Readers Digest let the cat out of the bag 50 years ago by identifying 80% of the "New Left" as Jews. These were the far more radical offspring of the even-then strongly Jewish overclass who were pushing for "change." They were the ones who founded Rolling Stone and its kin, led the protests against the Vietnam War (which they were right about but for the wrong reasons), and helped bring about "black power," feminism, widespread porn and the rest of the poisons plaguing us today. When they got older and assumed power from their parents, there was no longer any need to cover up their true nature and agenda and they became the totalitarian commissars of today.
Between the old liberal establishment and the New Left, the average Boomer didn't have a chance but be dragged to the left. That was all they knew, the old liberal media and the omnipresent counter-culture.
The subversion has been going on for well over a century, but became open in the late 1960s and has only intensified since. With no real leaders except the same establishment Republican Party faux conservatives who continue to sell out the country, the Boomers were just normal people trying to get by in life, like generations before and since. Yeah, most are screwed up and won't change even in the face of reality beating them over the head, ala the Whites who have fled California but learned nothing, but that's true of most Amerikans today of all ages, and people in general. Almost everyone can be easily molded when they lack leaders and institutions who are looking out for their interests rather than exploiting and manipulating them.
At any rate, this can be discussed further in Happy Hour, let's get back on topic.