Is the nation in a moral crisis?

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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.