[Diana in Wisconsin]

Mark.

[Clemenza]

ENTITLEMENT! THIS is so bad that you even find it on this site in the form of: "I deserve a good payin' job and would have one if it weren't for those damn immigrants and affirmative action. I'm a patriot dammit!"

Thankfully, the entitled are a small minority among JimRob's site. I am more concerned with a certain occupant of the oval office, to say nothing of a certain "entitled" Supreme Court nominee from the Bronx.

[Badabing Badablonde]

I enjoyed the article until he used the word “irregardless”......

[fleagle]

I would argue that the lack of personal responsibility stems somewhat from all the lawsuits we've seen in the past decade or so...an old acquaintance of mine once tripped coming out of the grocery store and twisted her ankle. She went to a lawyer and got $10,000 for "negligience" on the part of the grocery store. ??!!!!??!?!

Thankfully, those kinds of ridiculous lawsuits seem to be running out of favor, but let's just say they haven't helped to foster a sense of personal responsibility in modern society...not when there's always someone to blame or sue.

[Tolsti2]

The article makes good points, but he used ‘irregardless’ in there and that drives me crazy.

[ETL]

"5 Character Flaws That Are Destroying America's Future"

They left out extreme naivete/gullibility and laziness for seeking out the truth/apathy.

[silverleaf]

Excellent

[rbg81]

While I think there are a lot of destructive trends in society today, I’m not one of these people who thinks the “old days” are as great as they are made out to be. There was no shortage of injustice, cruelty, misery, and immorality back then. Back in the late 1800s, there was literally a whore house on every block in New York City. If I had to pick a time when we “peaked”, it might be the early 60s. At least the pictures from that era look great. The physical difference between the college students back then and today are especially stunning.

[wintertime]

What institutions are a MAJOR factor in all of the above????

SCHOOLS!

Government K-12 schools and our colleges and universities are indoctrinating our nation's children in all of the five qualities listed above!

(Yes, I am shouting! Conservatives are deaf, dumb, and blind.)

[TChris]

... irregardless ...

Can we add a sixth? Decreasing english literacy!

[MikeGranby]

This looks to be pretty interesting stuff, but the article is too long. I couldn’t concentrate beyond point #2.

[Neoliberalnot]

These 5, fully characterize the liberal/progressive personality of the new millennium.

[petercooper]

bttt

[Betis70]

tldr (too long, didn’t read, a response I’ve seen on some internet forums)

Oh wait that is one of the problems isn’t it?

[Nosterrex]

I cannot disagree with any of those reasons, but I would add another one, namely, lack of religious education. Whether it is because of the rise of secularism, pop-psychology,happy-clappy churches, or all of the above, many have abandoned Biblical Christianity for so-called spirituality. This is the fruit of all those five reasons applied to religious life. Spirituality is just another name for hedonism.

[MrB]

All summed up as

“Rejecting Biblical Christian values”