Perverse thoughts on our American culture

Time provides some perspective on how so many standards have changed.

Americans cannot stand for pet suffering stories while we tolerate tens of thousands of humans being killed or maimed in auto accidents every year.

Prisons used to be to protect us from the criminals. Now millions die from murders and other crimes every year from criminals on the street. Why America defends criminal's individual rights over group rights is still amazing to this citizen.

Government at all levels used to be about providing services at a good price. Now they seem to be jobs programs with nice infrastructure and retirement benefits paid by the citizens.

Politicians used to focus on practical problem solving using compromise and civility. Now problems are ignored or avoided while the worse sort of discourteous behavior goes on. When was the last time you heard a question asked about social security solvency during a presidential debate?

Getting results used to matter. Now getting across one’s good intentions seems to matter more.

Budgets are for the real world. Borrowing is for governments, with future taxpayers having to pay the principal and interest.

The national sense used to be a lot about our future, and expectations for our children. Now it is about us, today.

Women used to run the world. Now since the birth control pill, the question about who runs the world is in doubt to this citizen.

Many fear unaccountable government child services and prosecutors when no one even heard of them in the not so distant past.

The idea about shame has been superceded by looser morals to the core of America. The out of wedlock birth rates have exploded, with the government helping pay for it. There are even TV ads promoting sexual relations with herpes, which can kill women from cervical cancer.

We used to understand when our nation was being attacked, physically or even culturally. Now so many citizens do not even understand all this, or care. The assumption that the life they were born to and grew up in will go on forever is culturally assumed. The idea of having to preserve all this is naïve to so many.

Television and home movie systems are morally corrosive to our culture. The old time alternatives of families having to play games or read to each other is lost to most of us. The value of this is beyond basic understanding to so many.

School curriculums always had shop and home economics as part of teaching the basics. Now many adults can’t cook, or even do basic home repair. And more than ever, parents don’t have these skills to teach their kids.

Governments outsource many services, often to very competent retired employees who know how to do their job. What happens when all these people die off?

The rule of law was always supreme. Our government, aka we the people, passed laws and enforced them for our benefit, and paid for it. Now we have sanctuary cities publicly refusing to enforce federal laws about illegal aliens, and yet the federal government still seems to be sending its federal funds to these revolters. Please let these leaders answer to their voters when the federal government cuts off their federal funds, or worse.

The citizen's pride in winning a ribbon in the local county fair has been often replaced by derision of the much of the community who think of such industrious persons as hopelessly naïve. Children pick up on this as the sponges they are.

Most Americans love their country. Most recognize a good deal when they see it. What the younger generations may not see is the change from a not so distant past. What the younger generations may lead is standards, and their willingness to work in their behalf. A lot of Americans are about to be superceded, politically speaking. Lord knows, one hopes what has happened to date does not take another revolution or civil war in America to correct.