I turned 18 during Basic Training amid the Cuban Missile Crisis.  

Personal responsibility was popular then.  Today, everything is someone else's fault.  

Kids, politicians, teachers, government employees, bankers, police officers; whenever one of them fails to meet minimum standards of decency, much less criminal conduct, it is always someone else's fault.  

Or for politicians, the ever so popular "everyone does it" excuse, or more specifically 'the other party's politician(s) did it, too.'