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The ascension of the so called Kennedy Dynasty, strangely coincided with the steady, and sustained degeneration of this Republic.. The 60’s sexual, moral, and psychological, revolution, a social upheaval, began in earnest with the theft of the 1960 election by the clan Kennedy, and their corrupt degenerate cohorts in organized crime and sleazy Democrat machines in the major cities..

We know the education system peaked in 61 or 62' per the WSJ and it coincides with the removal of prayer from school. Post JFK and his EO to allow Unions for Federal Employees we have Teddy's hands all over LBJ's reforms of immigration. I do not have any historical data, but was "The Great Society" really LBJ's idea's or JFK's and or a collaboration with his brothers? My guess is yes. The bottom line other than the Space Program and lowering taxes, JFK as a President was probably mediocre at best and I am being magnanimous. However what you noted and I noted as legislation set in motion by JFK and LBJ, have festered into the messes we are dealing with today. I grew up in Mass, and never drank the koolaid and I do not think highly of the Kennedy Clan and that is being gracious, but it wasn't until I reached my mid 20's in a public arena with Americans from all states did it hit me why were they walking away when I mentioned I was from Mass? It took a while for me to realize, it was probably because of Teddy, how reviled in a polite way (by just walking away)the Kennedy's were....

I was too young to remember it, but I long for America's halcyon days, aka 60 through 62' before the Kennedy's made too much of a mess of it. I can't help but wonder if a lot of FR'ers and Tea Partiers from a cultural, political, and a epistemological standpoint in a complimentary way are stuck in 62'....

I was too young to remember it, but I long for America's halcyon days, aka 60 through 62' before the Kennedy's made too much of a mess of it. I can't help but wonder if a lot of FR'ers and Tea Partiers from a cultural, political, and a epistemological standpoint in a complimentary way are stuck in 62'....

I am sincerely sorry you missed the halcyon days. They are what sustain my belief now. I try to relate to the frontier individualism and conservatism--where nothing was wasted and every resource was valued. There is so much to be learned from the past...

‘62 was my freshman year in high school.

I went to an exclusive and highly competitive parochial school and had many classmates who ended up on business, industry, finance and (unfortunately) politics.

A common theme at all of our later reunions is the perception that the education we received is now available *nowhere* in the US. There is universal dismay at what our children and (now) their children are being taught - and moreover what they are not being taught.

It’s gone. The whole system is broken at its core.