The World Today as I See it

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I am 72 years young. I grew up in a world where my grandmother never locked her doors. When I was a child people were nice and respectful. Now it's as if a button was switched and people went a bit nutsy. I have also seen unruly neighbors being irresponsible and setting fire to garbage in their yards. I have seen a black man beaten to a bloody pulp for stealing a football out of a joint when I was in the carnival. I've seen little kids taking a dump right on the midway in the carnival too. Domestic violence and serial killers are a normal part of life now. I see the horrors in the news. Shootings at schools, shootings at gay hangouts, violent fights outside bars, ethnic upevil, men being beaten by police, Scientologists letting rapists go without any legal backlash whatsoever, and the list goes on and on. But, none of these negative things need to be attributed to our president or present-day politics. Some but not all. I think these things partially have to do with a lack of family upbringing on an individual basis. It used to be that the entire family lived in one home. By 'entire' I mean the grandparents too. It was a generational home. Old traditional values were learned and appreciated in the home. Respect, honesty, ethical behavior, etc. all were taught in the home. Nowadays usually there are just two generations in a family home. Parents and offspring. In many homes, traditions are more lax and children are not expected to act in any certain way. Some families have absent parents and kids don't even see their parents very often. The kids run wild and do as they please. In that kind of family, there is little respect and teaching in the home. This failure to take responsibility for raising children who are honest and have ethics is what I see as the downfall of this country. Not our president, not our senators, governors, mayors, school teachers, etc. fault. (How can a school teacher be effective in the classroom if the kids are disrespectful and unruly and the parents won't do anything?) It seems that people are either extreme or rather lax in their beliefs and how they act. As long as we have a democracy and live in a world where we have politicians with ethics and rules then we are halfway there and we can make change. We can vote for whoever we see fit to be in that seat. But, just remember we are one election away from the military being deployed in our streets to maim anyone who goes against the fascist in office. The country has its problems but without democracy, it could get a lot worse.