[river rat]

"How did it get to this point."

1. Tolerating assholes, excusing treason and treachery.
2. Allow "Public Education" to become Leftist Indoctrination centers.
3. Allowing "elected offices" to become lifetime careers for 3rd rate feckless imbeciles who would fail in most private sector challenges.
4. Permitting non contributors to vote.
5. Pretending that all cultures, religions and ethnic moral ethics are equal.
6. Permitting bilingual education in public indoctrination centers.
7. Promoting false "self esteem" in underachievers, rather than pushing students toward true worth or value.
8. Pandering to racial/ethnic minorities...who NEVER reciprocate once they become the majority...
9. Accepting the premise that generation after generation is entitled to welfare for life..
10. Rewarding unwed mothers with taxpayer's money.
11. Never learning that you always get more of whatever you subsidize.
12. Etc. etc.. etc...

I could go on....but you already get the drift..
We as a nation, have lost our way....
We are being led into the abyss by the dumbest, most inept and clearly the most incompetent Public "leadership" the nation has ever suffered under..

There is a reason all previous great civilization have fallen..
They are dragged down by the overwhelming weight of the nonproductive assholes, leaches, cowards and perverts that accumulate....

Semper Fi

[Isara]

"How did it get to this point."

How are we going to get out of it?

[AngryJawa]

"How did it get to this point."

None of those reasons, valid as they are, are viable without that greatest of American institutions - the media. TV especially.

So many of us sit idly by, transfixed by the flashing image coming from the box. They become unthinking, unquestioning, pliable vassals to the "elites" that grace the screen.

[doorgunner69]

Excellent list, but you left out:

Not just lowering, but removing the bar defining degeneracy and abomination.

[afnamvet]

Spot on river rat.