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RE: Buh-bye
Yes. There are social problems. Is this a new phenomenon? Nope. They've been with us forever.
My main reaction was to the anti-"city-slicker" mentality that romanizzo was spouting. The "moral decay" we're experiencing is much the same as that which brought down Rome. But that decay is of a different sort than most seem to think.
Rome didn't fall because of drunken orgies. The "moral decay" wasn't that sort - it was a decline in civic virtues. The growth of Christianity caused the citizens to focus inward - to look to their "heavenly" salvation, and to ignore their earthly problems. Instead of sending their sons to the army, they hired barbarian mercenaries, who eventually decided that they'd rather be giving the orders than taking them.
Our problems aren't the "depravity" of big city folk. It's the "yes-man" stupidity of the "simple country folk" who voted for the kind of imperialism that the Vermont manifesto decries. It's the folk who aren't outraged by the administration's civilian wiretapping programs who're causing the "internal moral decay". It's the ones who think habeas corpus is a nice idea, but one we could do without, if it might prevent a terrorist action.
It's the mentality that creates a lynch mob when the president gets a blowjob, but re-elects the president who lies to create support for military conquest of a sovereign foreign country. This is our loss of civic virtue. Don't point to Manhattan and Los Angeles, point to Poughkeepsie and Bakersfield.
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RE: Buh-bye
The "internal moral decay" is in the damn White House.
Scott, it goes beyond the White House, it's everywhere. Take this as an example. The mayor of Portland actually chastizing the government for arresting illegal aliens. Why, the audacity! can't you just see how getting rid of the cheap, non-english speaking, illegal labor will just bring our economy to its' knees.
It's not just immigration laws, either. Our entire politcal system is bloated and panders to all sorts of special interest groups; ranging from big business, to the NIMBY people who want things like electricity and gasoline to run their cars, and prisons for lawbreakers--they just don't want the facilities responsible for these things to be in their back yard.
Nope, the whole system is corrupt and falling apart; just like the Roman Empire. What is that line from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Thank you Robert Heinlein)?
"When people realize they can vote themselves Bread and Circuses, They Will."
We have done just that.
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