“I hate America so much that I’m ready to go to prison for it” — (paraphrasing) Jewish radical Abbie Hoffman to fellow Jewish radical Jerry Rubin, 1968. Ironically, Rubin later became a capitalist.

There have been rough spots in America’s history, there’s no question about that. For example, the “Civil War” of 1861-1865.

But 1968 was the year when America finally reached the point of “Oh, no! America is doomed to fail, no matter what we do.”

Everything bad came to a head in 1968. Unprecedented rioting occurred that year in 100 U.S. cities. Sometimes it was Blacks rioting, other times it was anti-Vietnam-war hippies. Comedy became political in January 1968 with the TV show “Laugh-In.” In April, there was a big shoot-out...