Americans are increasingly losing patriotism but embracing big government socialism. They don't like their country, but they rather favor the government, especially if it's a real big government that promises to solve their problems for them. Americans are losing interest in faith in God, family, children, community, and relationships in favor of self-definition, self-worship, self-everything, isolation, and gender dysphoria. The slide in values appears to be accelerating (just over the last 3 years). We enumerate the causes as a generational revolution (that has gotten worse over 3 successive generations), educational systems, and peer culture. What are our ultimate values?
Homeschooled himself in the 1960's and 70's, Kevin Swanson and his wife, Brenda, are now homeschooling their five children. Since graduating from his homeschool and then serving as student body president of a large west coast university, he has gone on to other leadership positions in corporate management, church, and other non-profits.