[wintertime]

but the fruition of their efforts has been relatively recent.
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It's been truly horrible recently, I agree.

However....In my opinion, Franklin D. Roosevelt was made possible by having one to three generations of socialist schooled voters march into the voting booth and pull the lever for socialism.

Children who attend socialist schools risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. If a powerful government can give the child tuition-free socialist schooling, why not use that power to steal **lots** of socialist goodies from their neighbor?

[TheOldLady]

We're riding in the same subway car. I agree with you that the schools have been socialized for a very long time.

But the destruction of the minds of our children was evidenced by our dropping so far down in the ranking of world academic excellence. That is a recent phenomenon, but as you say, it could not have succeeded without the insidious, pernicious manipulation of our people's common sense over those many years.

I only mention this because my husband can't find a young person to hire who has any kind of work ethic, knowledge, or ability to think common sensibly.

This situation has been getting worse and worse for the past 10-15 years. It is a huge problem, because people my age (65) are retiring and taking their work ethic and knowledge with them.