Are we seeing the devolving of America? [View all]

[diabeticman]

My wife posed this question to a group of friends and myself and she gave the following as an argument:

Just this weekend we had a Pro-football player who physically abused his son (regardless of how old the child is) and yet his employer the Vikings are going to allow him to play because they got their (a$$) handed to them on Sunday's game. So therefore someone so skilled at entertaining people and generating millions of dollars for a team is going to get a pass by the employer;YET, we have fast food workers or restaurant servers getting fired for complaining about a bad day at work or bad customer treatment. They are fired because that complaint "Looks bad for the company's image."


We have a Beautiful African American actress being cited as a prostitute because she dares kisses her boyfriend in public...A boyfriend who happens to be white. No money was exchanged yet a kiss now indicates someone is a prostitute.

(My wife said she wasn't going to go into the Ferguson and Zimmerman issue other to say: ) We have a serious problem with racist that is being ignored for years... political correctness placed a pretty band-aid on a wound that should have been treated and fixed but instead has been allowed to festered and now is causing the "patient to lose an arm".

We have GOP candidates and politicians having some Americans believing they are being "forced" to want to go to college. That if you are lower class you should be happy to settle into a low paying job and that politics are too complicated for the average citizen to understand....

We have Corporations controlling our government and are basically using the employees that work for them as either political props during elections OR just as cheap labor and we are seeing people being misused in the work place.

We have senators and congresspeople who would rather listen to a lobbyist than listen citizen in his or her own state.

We have at least 2 generations who see unions as complete evil things and not the employee advocates they are.

We also have people who don't understand or even know/remember the struggle of past generations who fought for our 40 hour work week and child labor protection. They either haven't learned about the Triangle waist coat factory or company towns.

We see fundamental christians who want to destroy science and GOPers like that idea because as science falls so does history.

Our country should be leading the world in Min wage and vacation time and work hour innovation but we see Western Europe taking that lead.

The newsroom opener was right: We aren't the greatest country in the world. We need to accept that fact and eat a huge piece of humble pie.

But my wife wonders if we have fallen so far down the "devolving whole" or can we stop this and climb back to the greatness we had before America got a big head and placed itself on the pedestal it placed itself upon.


So call it being bored on a Monday evening but I bring this debate to DU.


EDIT:

I do apologize for the smiley face that appeared during the Zimmerman/Ferguson paragraph. I was doing a : ) but put the ) too close which must have resulted in the smile... So sorry.