“ (IMHO the responsibility lies squarely on poor education specifically people not being properly taught the value of our Constitutional Republic but that’s beside the point)”
I think this is very much the point of the very effective communist plan for our education system, which was among the plans read into our congressional record long ago.
I found these for “sauce”.
http://unitedstates.fm/communismgoals.htm
https://www.citizenreviewonline.org/2010/Jun/communism.html
Remember when schools still had mimeograph (sp?) machines? I was given a mimeographed handout way back in school in the late ‘60- early ‘70 timeframe that listed similar communist goals for us students. That list in particular was from 1917, I remember because it was my grandmother’s birth year. At that time the school actually felt we should be aware of the agenda being pushed in parts of our nation. I kept that thing for at least 35 years. Somehow it’s gotten lost in one of my last 4 moves but I brought it up to school boards, teachers and my children as they grew up. Never hurts to let kids know an agenda like that. Surprisingly, knowing there is an agenda keeps kids paying attention.