[The Urban Sombrero]

As you mention numerous times on this forum, the decline of our moral society always seems to go in small steps. We start out with divorce becoming more common. In 1969 when The Brady Bunch first came out, there was a debate as to whether the character Mrs. Brady would be divorced from her husband. The writers decided just not to mention how she became remarried in the episode, in part out of fear of a major backlash from showing a divorced person on TV.

Fast forward another 20 or 30 years, and then you have "co-habiting" becoming and more and more acceptable - despite it leading to higher divorce rates. Combine that with high schools opening day care centers due to the overwhelming number of teenage pregnancies, and that creates some serious problems.

This society has a mentality of, "if it feels good, do it." You have drug usage, the 26 year old gang member that is a "child" in the eyes of the liberal, and more and more deviant behaviors that you mentioned that are being paraded. Now, it's hip for somebody to think they are the opposite gender - or define themselves as no gender at all.

We have certainly changed as a society, and not to the good. We're no longer at a time where you can park your car downtown and leave your windows down with your key in the ignition.

I understand your "downfall of society" lament. I leave my keys in my car most everywhere I go. To this point, I have driven it to my next destination each time. Granted, I do not live in anything remotely approaching a big city.

It occurs to me that 350 million people can create a lot more lawlessness than 100 million. At one time, the story goes that God looked upon the earth and could find nothing upon it good. It rained. A lot. The idea that people were once better than they are now is dubious. More people...more trouble. Without question the America of 2016 is much different than of 1952. However, the "betterments" at least rival the "detriments."