The problem began with the institution of modern government schooling ( mid-1800s to early 1900s).
— If children are sent to single-payer, compulsory, socialist-entitlement schools, our nation's citizens will learn to be comfortable with socialism. Franklin D. Roosevelt was not an accident. He was the result of one to three generations of citizens learning to be comfortable with socialism in socialist schools!
—Our earliest socialist-entitlement schools forced a generic and lukewarm Protestant worldview on its captive students. What does Christ do with the lukewarm? He spits them out of His mouth! The religious worldview was sufficient discordant with Catholic bishops that many started their own tuition-free school systems.
— Our socialist-entitlement schools have been completely godless since the 1960s. Simply to cooperate in the classroom the child must think and reason godlessly. How could it be otherwise?
Only evil can come from a system of indoctrinating children and we are reaping the fruits of it today.
The public (WVa-Ill) schools I went to in the 50s & early-60s were good, but they’ve gone to hell, since. The fruits of socialism therein today are what we’re now reaping. You’re 100% right.