Many factors. In short, it is the natural cycle of human societies. See The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glub. See The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler. See Tytler Cycle of Freedom.How is it that stupidity has conquered common sense and sanity worldwide?
Societies tend to begin with a certain Spirit that propels them to prosperity. Once, prosperous, they embrace a pattern of death nails. These death nails include:
- Allowing women into business and politics, which leaves the next generation susceptible to ideologies destructive to society.
- Multiculturalism, transitioning from a merit based system to an egalitarian system, which caps excellence and promotes incompetence.
- Lowering of sexual mores and embrace of homosexuality, causing birth rates to plummet.
- Spending on programs of benevolence from the public treasury beyond the societies capacity to support.

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