Thursday, April 19, 2012

America's Crisis of Character

4/19/20.

Peggy Noonan of the WSJ:

"People in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of Americans feel we're on the right track as a nation. That's a historic low. Political professionals tend, understandably, to think it's all about the economy—unemployment, foreclosures, we're going in the wrong direction. I've long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that it's also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing we call our culture..."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577354221282508372.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

In 1984, Charles Murray wrote that America was "Losing Ground." During the 1990's, President Clinton and his team reformed the welfare system based in large part on Murray's findings about how much ground we lost.  In 2012, Charles Murray wrote that "America is Coming Apart," --- focused only on white America. I hope the next President and his team find ways to  promote social policies that mitigate and reverse the high rates of divorce, out-of-wedlock births, single parents, fatherless families, the increase in perpetual adolescents, and erosion of educational excellence mixed with low expectations for growing up to earn a living, instead of being entitled to be taken care of by the government..--- S. Ceresnie

1 comment:

Jack Pelham said...

America's failures rest squarely on the shoulders of the public, who have failed in the aggregate to be good overseers of her own government. The plan calls for public oversight and the public fails to provide it.

For a thorough treatment of this topic, see the new (free) online book, Character Not Included: What America must fix before she can fix anything else. www.characternotincluded.com