Obama's Science and Technology adviser, John P. Holdren, came out of the Sixties espousing this radical view.
Holdren's fingers are all over our economic decline. He advocates for the systematic dismantling of U.S. exceptionalism believing that the world will be better off with a weakened America.
Who would intentionally weaken their own nation--unless their true allegience lies elsewhere?
Unfortunately, little (and large) heads have been stuffed with pseudoscientific pap for two generations now, from "Weekly Reader" to National Geographic, to TV. Most are scientifically illiterate, and will buy what the official state-approved experts tell them--to a point. When your light bill says XX degrees colder than the same period last year--for a few years, people should get a clue.
In the meantime, the assassins of our economy continue to write new and more stringent regulations, moving the target, and shutting down more industry while our Government softens the blow of indigence by throwing bread and circuses for the masses--at our expense.
It is so blatantly unsustainable, it cannot be other than intentional.
Instead of directing their anger at those who have made them poor, the masses are deflected by the ringmasters on TV and in other media to hate those who strive to improve our lot.
As Charlton Hesston's character said in Planet of the Apes:"It's a madhouse!"