As for wouldn't the nation run on conservative principles be wonderful, it pretty much did up to Teddy Roosevelt. It has been slowly unraveling ever since. Until then we had made America the fastest growing, most prosperous, most innovative, most inventive, most productive, most generous, and biggest economy in the world, we had the best educated and biggest middle class in the world, Mom could stay home with the kids if she wanted to, and there was nothing but bright futures ahead of everybody.
The entire 20th century was a period of decline for the United States in your view?