T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
America is now the land of the ignorant coward who is easily shamed and bullied into silence.
Really no more or less than at any other time in our history. What's changing is that social mobility--a major hallmark of American history--is rapidly coming to an end. More and more, Americans are finding themselves stuck where they are in society economically and socially. The paths that used to be open for this in America are slowly being choked to death, primarily from the Left. Some examples:
Destruction of organized religion (being involved in one and a church gave you a social path to success outside of church)
Destruction of the nuclear family and marriage (a major route for women who typically marry "up.")
Education (even a good high school education could get you into a good job, while college was affordable. Now neither is the case)
Inheritance (Onerously high inheritance taxes are a staple of the Left. Why should you inherit the family farm or family wealth and grow it?
Generational improvement (abortion abstinence, and lack of children--again the nuclear family all leave one generation to the next without this path)
Ownership (be it land or "stuff" Americans over generations grew wealth through ownership. That's being taken away by taxes and government policy)
Those are just a few of the paths the Left has done everything possible to remove from society. Without them, most people stand little chance of moving up and certainly families cannot over generations like they traditionally did. It makes most of society into proles and peasants locked into servitude and destitution by their masters, The Rich and government.
As corny as it is one of my favorite episodes is still "The Omega Glory" With the Yangs and the Comms.