Many thanks for your post.
In this country we have a very serious, and worsening, culture problem. Things like honor, personal standards, legal morality, accountability and equitable legal consequences are steadily eroding. The Founding Fathers would be very dismayed if they could see the state of the country today.
My experience is that average folks are mostly honest, mostly fair, mostly reasonable.
It is the self-proclaimed “experts”, the agenda-driven “journalists”, the control freaks who run large organizations-they are the problem.
They do affect our lives, but most of us don’t have to deal with them on a personal level.
This is a great country—with 1% of the population of sociopaths and complete jerks.