“I think we are crossing the threshold with the majority caring about nothing but their lifestyle, their garages filled with materialistic crap and a free ride, and they will surrender any freedom to secure it.”
You know, its arguable that our present state is the inevitable result of a people which inculcated the “Greed is Good” mentality of the 1980s. All the talk of America as a Christian nation, etc. was and is garbage. America’s god became money and “materialistic crap” and we went along with the Ivan Boeskys of this country and created a government, whether headed by Ds or Rs, designed to advance that godless materialism. And now we get to reap the whirlwind.
Indeed. You are correct.
As a side note, do you remember when people used to respect not only that you were successful, but how you became successful. I’m 50 years old. We always respected wealthy, successful people, but never respected those who became wealthy by ill-gotten gains. A great number of people today respect — or should I say, envy and wish to be — anybody wealthy, even those who lied, cheated and stole their fortune. When I was young, that was objectionable. Today it is embraced.
I think political correctness is the most dangerous threat to freedom that has occurred in my lifetime, but moral relativism is right up there.
Agreed.