The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago then how could today's numbers be "records". When records are being broken that means

The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago then how could today's numbers be "records". When records are being broken that means that things aren't the same as they have been. Maybe you could say that America has been in decline for a long long time, but it's still doing worse today in several metrics than it ever has.