“We should have acted 20 years ago.”
No, 59 years ago, when Sen. Joe McCarthy tried to warn us. Us frogs are now cooked in the pot, about to be scooped out and eaten.
I agree. The 1950s were a key decade. The US was strong. We had principles. Men were men. McCarthy told us that the communists were moving against us, but so many people refused to believe him. Then Sputnik came along, and a whole lot of Leftists got very involved in public schools -- working to "improve math and science". And it's all been downhill ever since. We've now gone through several generations in which many kids can't do math, don't understand science, can't read, can't write, don't understand civics, and have contempt for religion.
And here we are.