Exactly what my ultimate point has been.
The America everyone has been taught to believe is not the America of today. We can debate what events and dates when it began its transformation, but the fact is the new America is beginning to take shape and there is nothing that is going to stop its evolution in the years to come.
From what we see in the erosion of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, especially in the slow, but steady state-by-state repealing of the 2nd Amendment; the new America is headed to becoming a true fascist police state. The migration of the liberals and democrats as well as influx of illegal immigrants to historically Republican and conservative states will further tip the national and local election scales that will support this change.
Stay Tuned for More!
Every country goes though peaks and valleys in its social and political landscape. It's the natural order of things.
We are not a British Colony.
We are not pushing Westward to settle and tame the vast majority of the North American continent.
We are not fighting to end slavery or prevent states from seceding from the US.
We are not taking weeks to travel a few hundred miles to get somewhere,
We are not waiting weeks or even days for written news to reach us so we know how friends and family are doing.
We are not waiting for the local newspaper to be on the street to know what's going on in the country and the world.
We have politicians who live their entire lives in government office now whereas those positions were originally intended to be a short-term side gig, as the office holders maintained their own farms or businesses in the meantime.
We are not being served by our press corps. They view us as their servants, providing billions of dollars per year in revenue so they can feed us their biased and sensationalized nonsense rather than real news.
Our schools no longer teach real history. The teachers/system interject their own opinions and biases into the lectures which shapes the minds of graduates.
The society and political arena have changes as technology has changed. What you may have been "taught to believe" in the last 90 years is going to be different than what you were taught to believe 5 years ago.
I don't believe your premise is correct. What YOU and I were taught to believe was taught long before the Liberals got ahold of the schools. What they apparently are being taught to believe now is "Socialism works," "Conservatism = Fascism" and "America is just an evil, oppressive empire that owes its residents free everything because wealth = greed, and greed = evil."
#distressed
The problem isn't that our ideals don't represent the current state of things. It's that so many have been taught those ideals are a lie, which created a vacuum in people's lives that has been filled for some with a belief in big government and lack of faith in individual responsibility.
That's my take on it from a bird's eye view. It's easier to convince people their ideals and beliefs are wrong when you only point to where there are failings while ignoring the accomplishments and positives. Reminds me of the story of the Ten Commandments, and the constant nay-saying by Dathan. He blamed Moses for every road block the Jews encountered when leaving Egypt until the people finally started to believe in his words and not so much in what Moses taught them.
People are too easily convinced a system is bad when confronted by evidence that not everything is perfect. It's far easier to give up than to continue to work toward an ideal. True, that ideal might be unattainable for now, but I guarantee it'll never happen if we stop trying.