Well put.
It’s a poverty of values. The entire nation needs a spiritual awakening.
All of the “inner city problems” are now afflicting the rest of the country.
It goes back to busing and businesses leaving communities. Communities were left with no accountability and no gathering places where people could interact. Those most likely to be positive voices in their community went elsewhere for school, normal daily interactions, and jobs. It’s been engineered re-enslavement of the lower middle class.