You are correct in the lesson of history. One that too few know and understand.
I would go even further..... the “Frankfurt School” was replaced by the supreme efforts to co-opt academia by the KGB in the Cold War with great effectiveness. Khruschev said the quiet part out loud and if he were around today he would be quite proud.
Academia in America has been the root of the modern left and they are the BIGGEST influence on media, culture, bureaucracy, and the courts. The “grievance culture” of America can be laid at their feet. Brittney was immersed in it with tragic consequences for her personally.
Throughout human history “who” do despots purge immediately with a change in power? Academics. Many of the Academics who wholeheartedly supported Castro in Cuba were imprisoned or disappeared because Castro knew that they were the biggest threat to his power.
The Bible provides the best method of understanding the world today and always. The father of lies is winning the battle for hearts and minds even as he will certainly lose the war.
While your point and mine about external forces eroding the base of our nation is true, it is the lack of biblical morality and norms that creates the space in which evil can flourish and it is flourishing!
PS - I was an Army brat and lived in Europe for many years and became a veteran myself. FRegards for your family and words of wisdom.
Interesting. The Frankfurt School members in the US appeared to be clinically depressed individuals. They would ware heavy wool suits and overcoats in southern California in the middle of the summer. They were constantly visibly unhappy men who intensely disliked the country that offered them refuge and endlessly complained how that the US was not Germany. Many German refugees in California behaved in the opposite. Walter Klempener (whose son is remembered as Col Klink of Hogan’s Heroes fame) the symphony conductor made it very clear he had absolutely no interest in returning to Germany, a country that wanted to kill him, from spring like California where he made far more money directing motion picture symphonies or scoring film music than he could imagine directing an orchestra in Europe.