After the great suffering and loss of WWII, the time of peace and suburban home-owning prosperity - kids and beer and new cars and BBQ and sports on TV - lulled our masses.
Then the Marxist-socialists (check out The Frankfurt School people, they created concensus building and sensitivity training) got more active, behind the scenes after Joe McCarthy outed them. They got into our schools, unions, Democrat party, media, churches. They indoctrinated children and the poor and weak. They fomented protest against WASPs and wealth. They highly succeeded.
Hussein getting elected was a leg shot, the second time a shoulder shot. A Hitlery win will be a heart shot.
They introduced LSD and marijuana to the middle class.
Unhitched sex from marriage.
Made abortion legal.