The teachers are to blame...for buying into the NEA criminal socialization schemes over the past 40 years. We have examples of schools that work all over the country. The Jesuits have been teaching successfully for hundreds of years....(or else!). What works is known. There's no excuse.
Politicians are to blame for continuing to bow down to the powerful teachers' unions and funnel increasing $$$ into their failed schools.
Parents are to blame for not disciplining their own children and for buying into the current news/media version of world history, junk science and moral relativism. For choosing to remain young (immature) and be their kids "buddies" instead of doing the tough job of laying down the rules and being the parents.
Grandparents are to blame. How did the "greatest generation" come to believe that their grandmothers were weak, that abortion was acceptable as a means of birth control, that the family structure that worked for thousands of years was flawed and that this generation was wiser than all that came before? How did they forget the faith that brought them through the darkest years of the war and readily surrender their Bibles, their Christianity, their humility, their joy...for shallow vanity and bitter cynicism? Kinsey? Dr. Spock? TV? Social Security? Forgetting, in their post-war self-contratulating to thank the One responsible?
The ACLU is to blame, along with the USSC...for the lie of Church-State separation that crept into our schools, our courtrooms and public squares. Making it acceptable to discriminate based on religion, frightening pastors into silence when the Bible contradicted a current candidate's politics or lifestyle.
The Church is to blame. Parishioners expecting guidance from their pastors too often found pastors finding guidance not from God, but from the world. The Church, and the world, underestimated the influence of the most powerful propaganda tool the world has ever known... TV.
Those who so quickly condemn religion should spend as much time studying the Bible as they do the TV guide.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him ...Prov.13:24.
Kids get this. They don't want parent "buddies" or teacher "buddies"...they need adults who behave like adults to help them grow up, to teach them, discipline them.
Kids test the limits. If there are no limits, there is no growth. As young adults they lack the self-control necessary to say no to the temptations in life...lack the courage to stick with tough studies or real work, lack the inter-personal skills to make real friends or form the more complex bonds with the opposite sex required for true intimacy and marriage, lack the ability to set goals; gaining acceptance through "fellowship" with other angry "victims"...unable to outgrow "peer pressure" they conform to fad after cultural fad, exploited by adult "users" (poverty pimps, political activist profs, etc.), and exploiting others they join the collective...safe at last, introspection no longer required, parroting the simple old socialist talking points, decade after decade, though millions die, Hollywood glorifies and history proves the lie of their "faith"...they follow blindly...because it's easy, because they are too steeped in instant gratification and flush with peer acceptance to have to think, because the truth would condemn, not free them....and the quiet moments between raves and rants must be dulled with drugs, food, wine, sex, pain...
...while we ignore our own blessings, move across country from our kids, choose to look the other way or lock our doors...and turn the channel.
Imho.