Why is this country so screwed up?
Haven't you seen the evolution of education away from the basics of knowledge and into all the social experiments? I've had 80 years to see the changes. It's not just education that has evolved, it is most of the facets of our lives. It all goes hand in hand with students rioting and burning flags and spray-painting monuments and all kinds of other social nonsense. Students are not taught the things that we used to consider common sense knowledge. The emphasis today is on trying to figure out what gender is appropriate, and all the other woke issues that clog up education leaving no room for the basics. Anti U.S. themes are being taught to the point where there is no room for patriotism and any appreciation or interest in our past. None of this happened just recently. It has been a slow evolution across the decades until now we are where we are and still going in that same liberal direction.
Every generation has claimed that the world is going to Hell in a handbasket as each generation aged. We have gotten used to saying, "Oh that's just old-age talking." Well, that may be correct, but that don't mean that the old-timers aren't correct in their observations.