I think this problem is more than just a couple years old, don’t you?
The rash has spread, widely.
And, the real reason is that American perspectives have been replaced with communist ones.
Before you dismiss that line, consider this.
When my mother died, I went to the synagogue to check on her burial plot. A member of the congregation who took care of this went with me. he said there was no such plot.
As he showed me the map of the graves, and politely but with certainty insisted that it must have been another cemetary, I just listened.
When he ran down, I pointed down to my feet, where only a few feet away was both the grave site and the headstone. He apologized for the error.
HEEEER’S the communism!
On the drive back to the synagogue, he admitted that communism had killed well over 100,000,000 people. However, he rather wistfully said, “It is such a good idea.”
Acceptance of, and reliance upon, social responsibility, rather than individual responsibility is the core problem afflicting America, Arlington, and the volunteer at Mom’s synagogue.