As an educator I've lived through several decades, exposed to
the front lines of society's changing values.
And the more I listen to the media discussing issues impacting
the American culture, the clearer it has become to me that our culture is being
systematically destroyed. Why?
If
one compares our nation's values today with those from sixty five years ago,
it's obvious that things are very different.
After WWII, with so many men not
returning home, our nation was grateful that we were able to preserve a nation
of freedom and liberty.
Our
prosperity took off like a rocket as veterans came home and returned to a
peacetime society, starting their own
businesses, careers, and families. The youth of the day and those born shortly
after the war grew up in a society where social etiquette was considered
paramount to maintaining a culture of civility, decency, and respect for
others. Idealism prevailed because society's respect for those values were kept
at the forefront through our institutions.
Granted,
there were undesirable elements in society then, as before, which tainted our
nation's attempt to establish a "more perfect union". Those who
choose to disobey the laws established to maintain a civil society will always
be among us. But we as a people were focused on moving into the future with the
desire to improve our opportunities for everyone.
Yet,
during this same period a foreign threat to our
nation's democracy stepped up its efforts to implement a long range plan to
subvert that decency and respect.
Both
from without, and from within our nation's government, communism set in motion
several goals by which our freedoms and liberties would slowly be transformed
so that the youth today would turn on their elders.
Recall that Nikita Kruschev took off his shoe at the United Nations and
pounded it on the table while shouting in Russian, "We will bury
you!" And, recall the statement to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by a
visiting Russian ambassador who said that America would be changed so much that
it would eventually be like low hanging fruit, ready for picking.
The
shift of our music from the likes of Buddy Holly to that of Def Leopard and AC/DC, and then to
rap, which glorifies violence, sexual abuse, and illicit drugs, was another indicator of that deterioration,
along with the acceptance of homosexuality, transgenderism, black on black
death by gun violence, and female and gay priests in our churches who did away with organs for rock bands. On television, shows like Captain Kangaroo gave
way to The Simpsons and Family Guy, is a sad testament to the effectiveness of
those goals which have effectively degraded our nation's moral and cultural
standards to a level of disrespect and rudeness.
During
my years in public education I've seen the gradual decline in the stability of
the family in society. Polls indicate that this factor is the primary concern
of citizens today. There are more and more single parent households where the
father of the child(ren) is absent and the mother is left to work and raise
them alone. Many of these youth are left without any social skills to productively
interact with their peers or their elders and end up rebelling against their
mother, establishing or engaging in gangs and producing out of wedlock children of their own.
At
our government level, politicians who were corrupt have now dropped their
pretense and are blatantly radical in their intent to implement socialist
policies that will destroy our remaining liberties and freedoms such as one's
right to speak freely their opinion or to defend themselves from violent
threats. Sanctuary cities and states have become the next step in promoting the
illegal infiltration of our nation by foreigners who do not (nor wish to) shareour values.
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