Our public schools are to blame, IMHO. We should have been paying closer attention to what our children were being taught.
I’m grateful that most of my grandchildren are in good private schools.
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2
That’s certainly seems to fit what is happening at the moment....
I need to read that book again. I read back in the 50’s when I was in high school, or maybe it was college......