I was not yet a teenager when John F. Kennedy urged us to ask not what America can do for us but what we can do for America. In the 70's Americans began talking less about the common good and more about self-aggrandizement. We went from the “Greatest Generation” to the “Me Generation.” From “we’re all in it together” to “you’re on your own.” A NY Times bestseller , titled Looking Out for #1. It extolled the virtues of selfishness. The 1987 film “Wall Street” epitomized ethos “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Trump is the consequence not the reason.