.....”MANY Americans still give evidence of higher sensibilities and respect for proven, traditional values”....
I can agree but only to a point....the election showed people were angry about the way this country was heading and the leadership. Otherwise I don’t think Trump would have run had he not addressed head on the very things and ‘lack of respect’ our leaders had shown the people. .....and ‘their kind’.
In ‘my work’ I have observed a defined lack of respect from the clients served as well as toward one other. Where in my personal life my circle of friends has narrowed to those who know respect and such.
But I cannot deny some of the lack of respect comes from the hammering of those still angry and bitter over the election. It’s ‘infecting’ the country.
I respect your experience. But in my ‘milieu’, nobody is paying much attention to all of that ‘hammering’ - and I work and live in what they call a very ‘diverse’ environment.
Sure, a lot of people are buying into all of the ‘infection’ - and the perpetrators are trying to make it ‘viral’, and doing all they can through their connections with media to make it so.
I just don’t see it taking hold in everyday life - it’s only on TV and the Internet, and with those who believe in those media. But I don’t believe that the majority of people put those ahead of their personal, visceral, real-life experience, when ‘push-comes-to-shove”.
And I think that we have the election of the very plain-spoken President Trump to prove that.