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I have this long-standing disagreement with my daughter over the decline in civility. She sees all the violence, crime, and other related signs of American decline and claims, it’s always having been that way. I do agree that bad deeds have always been done. What irritates me is that I am unintentionally deemed a liar. I’m not.
When we moved to Spokane, Washington in 1967, it was a quiet, if not boring stronghold of an American past. It is true that Spokane, being the only “large” city in the inland area, became a crossroads for drugs. But daily life was of an older, conservative nature, not much on the news of local violence.
Today is different. People are confrontational to law and order. Defiance of authority is everywhere. Spokane has proudly become like all American cities. It’s an uncivilized bastion of leftist stupidity, cloaked in wishful, leftist happiness.
I’m old (seventy). I remember what it was like before; before Hollywood, music, and college professors reaped their crop of dimwits, before politicians had driven the final wedge between us. The young don’t know; they weren’t there. But they will be there when the unraveling is complete and their children accept the collapse of society as normal. Then they will be the liars.