It’s also due to the fact that more than half of people under 30 think socialism is superior to capitalism. We are reaping the the results of the communists “long march through the institutions,” ie, the take-over of our educational system, our churches, and our media. Obama couldn’t do any of what he is doing without a 60 year collapse of these sacred institutions.
Bill Ayers and his ilk in education and in other cultural institutions had plenty of help and mentoring from those of my father's generation ( born 1913). Therefore....We only saw the manifestations of Marxism 60 years ago. The dry rot started in the 1800s.
Re: The institution of K-12 education
Our system of compulsory K-12 education was corrupt from the beginning. It is built upon compulsion and socialist-funding. And...Just like Obamacare won't be that bad in the beginning, due to the values of the workers trained in the old system, it took a few generations for the full horror of socialist education to manifest itself.
Compulsory, socialist-funded, and single-payer schooling was corrupt from its inception. ( 1853 to 1918). Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt weren't accidents. They were the result of one to three generations of socialist indoctrination in our nation's socialist schools. Children who attend these schools risk becoming comfortable with accepting tuition-free and citizen-paid schooling. Gee! If the voting mob can give them tuition-free schooling, why not **lots** of “free” stuff?
The religious worldview was never more than a lukewarm and generic Protestantism. ( What does Christ do with the lukewarm? He spits them out of His mouth. ) Today they are utterly godless. The children who attend these schools **must** learn to think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
2) All schools restrict First Amendment Rights. They must just to maintain safety and order. When government schools do this, the children risk learning to be comfortable with government compulsion and the government's trashing of their First Amendment Rights.
Conclusion: We must find ways to shut down the government's socialist-entitlement schools. We must find private alternatives. We must rescue our nation's children.