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To: longnshort who wrote (1063232)	3/30/2018 7:12:34 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1576000

A lot has changed since then. For one, WWII was still fresh in everyone's mind. The US was unified like never before the economy was going well. Prosperity was rapidly increasing due to the US' new dominant position as the manufacturer to the world, which was still rebuilding from the war. Christianity was also dominant and acted as a restraint within our culture. It was different in a lot of ways. Today, there are so many things that are disrupting our culture. I'll name a few of them. Technology, social media, cell phones are disconnecting people from each other. Video games with hyper realism combined with first person shooters are desensitizing people to what it means to kill. Depression and suicide rates among millennials and gen z are hockey sticking. Psychiatrists who have studied this phenomenon describe the change in trend as a cliff and are trying to find the root causes, but many blame some of the things I've listed above. Our culture is disintegrating. Christianity is derided, as we've seen on these threads. The moral fabric is all but gone. Selfishness and narcissism is the order of the day, pushed by "gotta be me" liberals. Our sense of connectedness and unification as a country is gone. Lot's of micro groups of hyper victims see everyone else as the enemy, not as co-citizens in a larger purpose unified by a set of values enshrined in our Constitution and our way of government. No one is asking what they can do for their country, but instead constantly ask what our country can do for them. What's different? Everything. Our laws have not kept pace with the times.