Lots of reasons for our decline: 1) Failed public schools, basically leftist indoctrination centers 2) Corrupt media, leftist activists 3) A lazy ill informed voting base 4) A Republican establishment that has failed to embrace conservatism and has instead embraced their comfortable lifestyle that demands acquiescence to political incompetence and status quo of implementing ever larger inefficient government that invites ever increasing failure and less freedom.
and someone was telling me just a while ago that common sense and critical thinking were still alive in America.