What In The World Has Happened To Our Society?

Things weren’t always this horrible.  Once upon a time, America’s shiny new cities were the envy of the entire world.  Our citizens dressed sharply, they treated one another with respect, and they worked incredibly hard.  But now our country is teeming with extremely slothful degenerates that want everything handed to them on a silver platter.  Rampant greed is everywhere that you look, crime is completely out of control, we are facing the worst drug crisis in the entire history of our nation, millions of our fellow citizens are absolutely seething with hatred for one another, and those that attempt to stand up for what is right are considered to be the problem.  We should be deeply grieved by what has happened to our society, because it truly is a great tragedy.

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.  On Wednesday, Matt Walsh published an excerpt from a letter that an infantryman sent to his family during the Civil War…

If you want to see how much the English language has deteriorated in modern times, go read the letters that random infantrymen wrote home to their families during the Civil War. These were young men often without much formal schooling who wrote naturally like poets. One example: pic.twitter.com/dcuJiq2c6G

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 1, 2023

Can you write like that?

I certainly can’t.

Those of us in this generation like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of human history, but the truth is that we can’t even compare to those that have come before us.

Let me give you another example.  More than a century ago, the streets of New York City were filled with extremely civilized people that dressed incredibly well when it was time to go out into the public arena…

At this point, drug overdoses account for 80 to 85 percent of all accidental deaths in the Big Apple…

New York Times 3 days ago. pic.twitter.com/HwJyU3AOxX

— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) February 23, 2023

Is this “progress”?

I don’t think so.

In Portland, conditions have gotten so bad that more than 2,600 businesses have left the downtown area over the past few years…

Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have revealed.

Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to leave their downtown ZIP codes.

Several big-name employers, from Unitus Community Credit Union to Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime levels and homelessness – and the city’s failure to address it.

Apparently officials want even more businesses to leave, because now a bill that would give homeless individuals $1,000 a month “in no-strings-attached cash” is being seriously considered…

Oregon is considering giving its vast homeless and low-income population $1,000 in no-strings-attached cash.

The bill was proposed last month by woke State Senator Wlnsvey Campos – who was among those calling to abolish the police in the summer of 2020 when the city of Portland was besieged by protesters – and Rep. Khanh Pham.

If they actually do this, most of that money will go straight to the drug dealers.

Down in San Francisco, drug addicts are fueling a crime spree that is worse than anything that the city has ever experienced.

When one woman recently went into the city for a yoga class, she was told that the building “had been broken into six times in two months”…

Yesterday I went to a yoga class in San Francisco for the first time in years.

They had the front door locked (had to be buzzed in), a sign on it that said “no cash on premises,” and the woman at the front desk said they had been broken into six times in two months.

Over in Los Angeles, violent crime has become such a problem that extremely expensive “executive protection dogs” have become a very hot commodity…

The elite animals — typically German shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Dobermans, cane corsos or a mix of those breeds — are marketed under names such as “personal canine bodyguards” and “executive protection dogs.” Amid a spate of high-profile crimes in upscale parts of Los Angeles, they have become highly sought after among the rich, many of whom worry about being targeted.

Protection dogs, they say, provide an immediate layer of front-line defense, unlike security cameras (which merely show an intruder on the property, and only if the devices happen to be pointed in the right direction) and home alarm systems (which can be bypassed or ignored). Even if police are summoned, they can be slow to respond, if at all. So homeowners who can afford it are being more proactive.

This is the world that we live in now.

But most Americans don’t seem to care.

We are literally living in an “idiocracy” in which people are dropping dead all around us, but most Americans are so far gone that they can’t even understand what is happening.

Of course it isn’t just the United States that is facing such problems.

Up in Canada, crime rates are absolutely exploding thanks to the reckless policies of the Trudeau regime…

The Toronto Police Service data portal shows that Toronto experienced a 17.2 per cent spike in overall major crimes in 2022, including a 9.8 per cent increase in assaults, a 44.2 per cent spike in auto thefts, 6.5 per cent growth in break and enters, a 28.5 per cent jump in robbery, an 11.3 per cent increase in sexual violence, and a 35.8 per cent gain in theft over cases.

And in many areas of South America crime has risen to levels that we have never seen before…

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean continued to experience high murder rates in 2022, as cocaine production reached new heights, the fragmentation of gangs continued, and the flow of weapons across the region grew more acute.

For Ecuador, the situation was downright catastrophic. Historic amounts of cocaine entering the country fueled violence, with murders skyrocketing as gangs targeted judicial officials and killed police officers at record rates.

That cocaine came largely from Colombia, where recently inaugurated President Gustavo Petro has promised to shift away from the war on drugs in favor of efforts to achieve a “Total Peace” with the country’s rebel and criminal groups.

Our entire world is deeply sick.

We have turned our backs on what is good, and we continue to run after evil as rapidly as we can.

As a result, our society is a complete and total mess.

We truly are living during one of the most critical times in all of human history, and we desperately need to change course.

Unfortunately, most people seem to think that everything is just fine, and so they see no need for a new direction.

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