Is the nation in a moral crisis?

[kentuck]

When we are living in the times of artificial intelligence and alternative realities, it is a challenge. The strongest parts of the cult are the religious types. They build golden statues, not of calves, but to a man.

Bomb fisherman out of the waters off Venezuela. It was like a scene from a mob movie. They were drug dealers. Many American lives were saved from these drugs.

Bomb an all-girls school in Iran and kill dozens of young girls. It was a war of choice. No one asked the Congress, the people we voted for, to make decisions such as these.

Demolishes the East Wing of the White House. Now we will build a Grand Trump Ballroom with an impenetrable bunker underneath, to protect Dear Leader, if we are bombed with drones?

The country is asked these moral questions.

What do we do about it?

[FadedMullet]

1. Moral crisis? We used tio be better people, thatr's for sure. We used to the good guys. Now, not so much.

I'd vote for any democrat who said "let's be the good guys again".

[canetoad]

2. Hard to say

Part of me says yes - the era of excessive greed is upon us. Shareholders dictate the welfare of workers. Billionaires abound. But really, I can't decide if I'm from the boomer era and am not admitting that the world is changing and I'm not.

What I do know is that hungry, homeless and disenfranchised people will eventually rise up and blood will be spilled.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. The US has been in a moral crisis since the Bush/Cheney regime. Nt

[Initech]

8. Hell, since Reagan.

The GOP has just become so drunk with power and out of control it's insane. Now we have the absolute worst, most psychotic and morally depraved group of assholes that have ever dared to call themselves leaders. It's insane. Something definitely has to be done.

[RockRaven]

4. It has been since Ford pardoned Nixon. And there is no bottom in sight.

[Morbius]

7. It has to be at least since Nixon did the things which caused Ford to pardon him.

At the very least.

[Hey Joe]

5. We have become much worse as a society since

the advent of the smartphone.
It opened the door to social media exploding onto everyone’s lives 24/7/365.
And then with the influencers and hate speech and…..
Too many people are slaves, mind, body and soul to algorithms that misguide them to hate, fear, greed and other stupid shit.

[NewHendoLib]

6. The US IS a moral crisis right now

[Martin Eden]

9. When the head of our government is a pathologicl liar, sexual predator, convicted felon

And the majority in Congress support him as he commits crimes in violation of Constitutional law, then...

YES, our nation is in a moral crisis.

[The Madcap]

10. It all makes me glad I'm older.

I can't imagine how bad it must look to young people with any significant degree of intellect. If I were in their position, it would be nearly impossible to hold out hope for the future.

I can't say that they would be wrong.

[4bonhoffer]

11. We've seen this before

If you think this Republican Party will not do anything that the nazies did then you’re delusional. This is not hyperbole.

[lostnfound]

12. Think tanks worked hard since Reagan to sell an 'alternate morality' demonizing compassion

The fights in earlier America to abolish slavery, give women the right to vote, and stop child labor succeeded through a call to conscience of ordinary people.
The voice of Walter Cronkite and images curated by his staff fed the soul of a country that did not want to see ‘colored fountains’ or police water cannons anymore.

Those same fights, if repeated today, would be heavily deterred by ideologies intentionally promulgated to counteract compassion / empathy in ordinary people.

The immoralities were always there (from slavery to slaughter of native peoples to lynching) but so were healthy doses of genuine natural morality that would respond (though much too slowly) to those moral questions that you mention.

The very concept of raising those moral questions is attacked and demonized in countless ways, such as declaring it ‘woke’.
The media has been warned against dwelling on those questions.

[kentuck]

13. When do the people say, "No more!"?

In my opinion, it will continue until the people refuse to take it? It will not end due to anything like compassion or empathy. It is more likely to end in anger and rebellion, in my opinion.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Wars started by a child sex abuser driven to destroy NATO?

What’s the prob? It’s not like he’s hell-bent on destroying the United States and the planet and taking us all with him as he dies from Alzheimer’s.