Add in political correctness, and you've got a trifecta.
“Factor in educators dumbing down our youth to the point that they no longer understand or appreciate the concepts of freedom and liberty, and you have the perfect storm for this sort of complacency.”
You are 100% correct. We allowed the public schools to fall into the hands of the left, and didn’t fight them. We just ran off to private schools, or home schooling. Now we have 3+ generations of mush heads totally incapable of critical thought.
Complacency is one of the latter stages of the demise of a democracy. There is no doubt in my mind that the American Republic is dying. But, we have ourselves to blame.