Mike Wallace was a twisted little communist way back then, eh?
Sho nuff looked like it to me !!!
Our problem in Amerika today is that all of the "collectivist programs" mentioned by Wallace (and more) have turned ambition, initiative and dignity on their heads ... Amerika is a crack whore looking for a john, willing to trade her soul for one more hit on the crack pipe.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars.