[Louis Foxwell]

Cal Thomas makes salient points. Lying is but the tip of the iceburg of our national discontent. We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons. Ministers, moguls and mavens all have infected the culture from the top down.
If there is an area in which the elites have permeated society with their influuence it is in the area of dysfunctional ethics.
We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability just as Rome on the eve of being overrun by the Goths. Substitute the US for Rome and Islam for the Goths and you have a pretty good assessment of our current condition. We are about to be raped and plundered.

[MrB]

We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons.

WE haven't. Only those with an elitist mindset have. Even those who don't consider themselves to be "elite" can have an elitIST mindset, wherein they believe that the "special people" can live by different rules.

[bert]

———We live in moral chaos-——

The condition is chaos only to one with ethics and morals.

To be progressive is to have neither, to live unshackled by the hard learned rules for being civilized.

Everyone who calls themselves Democrat is an American enemy, far worse and more deadly than an Al Qeada fanatic.

[SMARTY]

“We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability”

Right. You want to know where it starts?

Here's one for you: We have a student assistant for the summer. He's supposed to begin at 8:00 a.m. No problem, right? He has no classes in the summer. BUT... he CANNOT arrive by eight....it is always 8:30 before he gets in. So, the hours are adjusted to 8:30 a.m.... Now it's a lead pipe cinch he will NOT arrive until 9:00 a.m.

Just say'n

[Tallguy]

We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons.

Way too broad a statement. Leftists regard themselves as part of a movement. Anything can be justified if it can be portrayed as furthering the movement toward its goals. The vast majority of Americans don't believe that. Voters in Weiner's district would prefer that he not have acted in that manner, but they were making a cost-benefit judgment. This demonstrates the extent to which decent people have been enslaved by the political system.

[nothingnew]

We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability just as Rome on the eve of being overrun by the Goths. Substitute the US for Rome and Islam for the Goths and you have a pretty good assessment of our current condition. We are about to be raped and plundered.

Very well said Louis.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Alberta's Child]

Very interesting points in both this article as well as your post. I wonder, though, if a lot of this is a bit overblown. Here's my rationale for this: A lot of these scandals can really be traced to a heightened level of public scrutiny combined with advanced technology that brings a lot of things into the light of day that had previously remained out of the public eye.

I mean, one important lesson from the Weiner saga is that a combination of an iPhone and a Twitter account just gives a person a lot of ways to demonstrate to the world just how big an imbecile he is.