I’ve been around for a long time. I was born in 1957 and consider myself lucky to have lived a good portion of my life when America was at its peak. I’ve also spent a good portion of my life watching America being actively degraded. This isn’t the country that I grew up in. We used to have standards. My family was poor, but we had middle-class values. The house was kept clean, the children were fed and well dressed, and we knew that if we got into trouble, we would be shaming the family, which in my household was one of the worst crimes you could possibly commit. We weren’t the only family like that. Most of the neighbors …
