Good summation. I would add the pernicious effect of government “help” starting with “urban renewal” in the 1950s and LBJ’s “Great Society” in the 1960s which destroyed families; the immigration changes in the 1960s that de-emphasized European immigration; and WW II which put millions of women to work manufacturing materiel and showed them other paths besides being a housewife. Cataclysmic wars breed hedonism afterwards which created the path to the sixties rebellions.
We agree. Sad.