Kids from this generation would benefit enormously from a trip to Japan. Let them experience Japan’s surreal levels of cleanliness, order, and safety and then ask them why they think those things exist there and not here. It’s all about society-wide respect, personal responsibility, and a sense of deep shame for failing at respect or responsibility.
I don’t think the U.S. has ever achieved quite the extraordinary orderliness of Japanese society, but it used to have perhaps 80% of it while also enjoying a sense of personal freedom that the Japanese lack. We used to have a much cleaner, safer, and more respectful society, along with legendary American ingenuity. The Left has now thoroughly crushed much of that, by making society cruder, more self-centered, and dumber, while pumping individuals up with false self-worth and discouraging individual effort. There are still flashes of the past in extraordinary people like Elon Musk, but for every Elon we unfortunately now have millions of people who devalue knowledge, effort, and drive. The relentless focus on “identity” has destroyed so many in this country. We’ve created a generation (or two, or three) who think they’re God’s gift to the world, yet are actually totally useless.
...and entire villages that haven't seen a newborn child in years.
Japan has started importing swarthies because they need people to run their modern systems.