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kentuck

(115,554 posts)
Sun May 10, 2026, 09:23 PM 4 hrs ago

Is the nation in a moral crisis?

When we are living in the times of artificial intelligence and alternative realities, it is a challenge. The strongest parts of the cult are the religious types. They build golden statues, not of calves, but to a man.

Bomb fisherman out of the waters off Venezuela. It was like a scene from a mob movie. They were drug dealers. Many American lives were saved from these drugs.

Bomb an all-girls school in Iran and kill dozens of young girls. It was a war of choice. No one asked the Congress, the people we voted for, to make decisions such as these.

Demolishes the East Wing of the White House. Now we will build a Grand Trump Ballroom with an impenetrable bunker underneath, to protect Dear Leader, if we are bombed with drones?

The country is asked these moral questions.

What do we do about it?

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FadedMullet

(1,012 posts)
1. Moral crisis? We used tio be better people, thatr's for sure. We used to the good guys. Now, not so much.
Sun May 10, 2026, 09:44 PM
3 hrs ago

I'd vote for any democrat who said "let's be the good guys again".

canetoad

(20,955 posts)
2. Hard to say
Sun May 10, 2026, 09:50 PM
3 hrs ago

Part of me says yes - the era of excessive greed is upon us. Shareholders dictate the welfare of workers. Billionaires abound. But really, I can't decide if I'm from the boomer era and am not admitting that the world is changing and I'm not.

What I do know is that hungry, homeless and disenfranchised people will eventually rise up and blood will be spilled.

Initech

(109,180 posts)
8. Hell, since Reagan.
Sun May 10, 2026, 10:45 PM
2 hrs ago

The GOP has just become so drunk with power and out of control it's insane. Now we have the absolute worst, most psychotic and morally depraved group of assholes that have ever dared to call themselves leaders. It's insane. Something definitely has to be done.

Morbius

(1,090 posts)
7. It has to be at least since Nixon did the things which caused Ford to pardon him.
Sun May 10, 2026, 10:34 PM
3 hrs ago

At the very least.

Hey Joe

(777 posts)
5. We have become much worse as a society since
Sun May 10, 2026, 10:07 PM
3 hrs ago

the advent of the smartphone.
It opened the door to social media exploding onto everyone’s lives 24/7/365.
And then with the influencers and hate speech and…..
Too many people are slaves, mind, body and soul to algorithms that misguide them to hate, fear, greed and other stupid shit.

Martin Eden

(15,851 posts)
9. When the head of our government is a pathologicl liar, sexual predator, convicted felon
Sun May 10, 2026, 11:14 PM
2 hrs ago

And the majority in Congress support him as he commits crimes in violation of Constitutional law, then...

YES, our nation is in a moral crisis.

The Madcap

(2,005 posts)
10. It all makes me glad I'm older.
Sun May 10, 2026, 11:22 PM
2 hrs ago

I can't imagine how bad it must look to young people with any significant degree of intellect. If I were in their position, it would be nearly impossible to hold out hope for the future.

I can't say that they would be wrong.

4bonhoffer

(228 posts)
11. We've seen this before
Mon May 11, 2026, 12:08 AM
1 hr ago

If you think this Republican Party will not do anything that the nazies did then you’re delusional. This is not hyperbole.

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