The View from Galt's Gulch [shameless vanity]
I tend to think that this has been a very, very long time coming. It has been painfully obvious since the 2008 election cycle but it started very long before then.
I think that the country will come back better than before. But it's got to hit rock-bottom before it can come back...and that is going to be a long process and is going to be painful.
I tend to think that the only thing that we can do on our side is to hit the brakes and slow things down, but not stop it. I don't say this to be defeatist, but to be realistic.
The educational system has been utterly corrupt and this has been that way for a century. Look at the two primary theoreticians who formed modern educational philosophy: John Dewey and Jean Piaget. They were both left wing and sought to use the education of the young not to install traditional values and independence...they sought to use the educational system to create drones that will think the way that the State wants them to think.
The corporate structure has been totally compromised to be an agent of the state. Access to capital is being restricted to corporations that bend the knee (that's why so many companies are going "woke" -- they will lose access to major funding if they actually act with conviction).
Until the system comes crashing down, I really don't think it can be "fixed". But once it does, the populace will need people who can and will be able to do so. And that's conservatives.
not to install traditional values and independence.
I know you are right about Piaget and Dewey but my education in public schools, at least, DID involve a respect for and a support of those values.
From first learning the Pledge to singing “My Country Tis of Thee” and bible readings each morning, yeah, we learned all of it.
But yes it is no longer that way. I would not send a child to those abuse centers any longer.
I do not think we will ever get back to where we were. Too many people have forgotten or simply do not know anymore.
We have entered the idiocracy.
People have only touched the edge of how painful it could get if things aren’t turned around.....and this administration isn’t the one to do it as they are hell bent at destroying all there is good about our country......we had a taste of what progress was and hearts turning back to God under Trump because he encouraged it. Now there’s none. It’s all falling down with the Humpty Dumb-ties sitting in Washington.