I completely agree and share your pain.
After many months of study and contemplation on the ills that are affecting this nation, I may (emphasis on “may”)have struck upon an explanation. However, no solution comes to mind.
A brief summary of what I’ve discovered.
1) The US is a battle ground of a culture war that has its roots in the 1890’s and the war is one of Communist Marxists versus those in the US that have cleaved to the God-centric values of the Founders of the United States, i.e. the idea that certain rights are inalianable and are God given.
2) Competing Philosophies are at the heart of the matter and may be simply summed up as 1) A Philosophy which puts Man at the center of the Universe, evolving into Man-god. (Darwinian Materialists) versus 2) A Philosophy wherein a creator God authors and orders Life.
3) Most all of us remember from our educations the battle having been formally engaged in the Scopes Monkey trial; the evolutionists won. That set the stage for the triumph of the Darwinian Materialists to take over the education system.
4) Since the Communist take over of the US education system, all subsequent battles have been rear guard defensive battles with the God Centric forces always, slowly losing ground.
5) The MSM, the political theatre of the elections, news and Science debates have cleverly obscured the underlying culture war such that in the daily noise and confusion, most all people have not only lost focus on the underlying Philisophical Culture War, they’re no longer aware of the fact that it exists.
So, your observation that 16 years pass and everything just gets worse is true and the root cause of that is that as a “culture” the US have devolved into the fastest developing Pagan Nation in the history of humanity.
Its a set up for the establishment of a culture of death which will ultimately collapse in a cataclsym of genocide. The genocide has already commenced in the US with the killing of millions of unborn fetuses. It will progress with the instituion of euthanasia to kill off the aged to save the Social Security system. And lest people suggest this is some bizaare conspiracy theory, I’d say look around you at the news.........Pro-Abortionists screaming “Satan Loves Us” in the Texas State Capital Building. The spray painting of “Satan Loves Us” in the defilement of Churches.
Its in our faces! The Evil is coming out of the shadows and openly proclaiming its presence.
And all the while the MSM blathers on about Kim Kardashian.
I nominate this for most insightful post of the thread! This is the big picture. To bring it back to football - whatever problems it may cause, it is a uniquely American sport, and thus a manifestation of traditional American culture which the left seeks to undermine and destroy. Any culture or society has imperfections, injustices and potentially harmful traditions. The genius of the left is to put over the idea that such problems indicate a fundamental defect of the society that can only be resolved by more socialism/communism, increased regulation, and more centralized control.