America is on the wrong track because, over the past 50 years, no matter who was in the White House, the Leftists have held the reigns in the culture-creating industries of education, news and entertainment and they have used their powers not to advance truth, beauty, justice, morality, decency, or anything else that is good.

Even Sayet, over on Big Hollywood

This from the man who some time ago claimed that liberals are evil. Actually all people are evil, but there is something to Sayet's claim about the Liberal takeover of education and media. That something being that as the custodians and teachers of knowledge and culture, those in the education system, who generate the ideas and policies, and those in media who spread the ideas, have enormous power in America.

The problem is that they do not teach truth, but falsehoods. Falsehoods that keep them in their behind-the-scenes power. Moldbug over at Unqualified Reservations has a very long open letter to progressives in which he explains how that works (it has about a dozen parts, each many pages long).

It explains why a Republican congress, with a Republican president, with parity on the Supreme Court, still went left for 8 years. It's why the Reagan revolution didn't last, and why, in the future, when the Republicans sweep back into power, we'll continue our progressive journey. They are all progressives to one degree or another, having been taught by extreme progressives in their political science and fill-in-the-blank studies classes.

Meanwhile, in the real world, we are left to suffer with the consequences of whatever policy gets enacted. Suffering professors and politicians alike are allowed to skip over.