What you have described in your post is taught almost nowhere in this country.
It may well even be absolutely nowhere.
There are essentially no sources transferring that knowledge into the next generations.
There are seemingly endless sources transferring the opposing philosophy, schools at all levels, media you name it.
If a young mind is fertile soil, whoever plants their seeds first controls what the field becomes. The people who are getting there first certainly are not planting the seeds of conservatism.
Considering this, what do you think the future of this country holds?
I'd be a pessimist, but it's so hard to keep up. Seriously, I see pain. The question for me is will there be enough to cause people to change - before it all falls apart. We're building a highly flammable world and we're making more matches.
The people who are getting there first certainly are not planting the seeds of conservatism.
Mostly true. The foundation of civilization is the family and its values; and that continues to be eroded. Any lasting change has to begin there.
There are essentially no sources transferring that knowledge into the next generations.
Nor even the knowledge and value of western civilization.
We can hope for it to be taught by our leaders - political and otherwise - but it seems lacking there. Reagan's rise was over decades and part of a movement, it could not have happened otherwise. My point earlier was we can't expect a conservative leader when there is no coherent core of a conservative movement. Everyone has a part in that, in what we teach, do, choose.
In optimistic moods I remember how hopeless it all seemed under Jimmy Carter - and it changed very quickly; it could again.
It will take more than "a" leader.
Thanks much for your reply and question, now: What do you think the future of this country holds?
Seems a good place to repost this.
Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” tv series is online here:
http://www.freetochoose.tv/ftc80.php
Reagan introduces the segment on “Freedom and Prosperity” here:
http://www.freetochoose.tv/program.php?id=ftc1990_3&series=ftc90
Anyone who has a teenager, college student, friend that might be interest, please share.