When the country was ordered by elitists, politicans and courts to abandon our American-American culture, the nation died. They ordered humanism (social Marxism) from the top down and erased the America’s culture of freedom and Western morality.
We managed to hold back the Marxist economic structure but we lost the fabric of moral and inspiried society that was woven into that economic system which made it work.
So, we lost America a long time ago. We chased the only piece of freedom remaining - economic freedom but were ordered to be totally devoid of our culture in our lives. Now that is gone, too.