That’ what Bruce Fein thinks, and it’s hard to argue with him:

The United States culture is decaying, growing steadily less capable of supporting a republican form of government.

Unless the cultural pendulum swings back toward civic virtue and learning, the United States will plunge to government by executive edict.

Entitlement syndrome, politicians knowing they can get elected if they promise anything and everything, and people knowing they can elect those who will give them things funded by the hard work of others all play into it.