The Zeitgeist of the Dissidents

We no longer abhor deviants and dissidents but lionize them; we no longer subscribe to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and self-reliance but entitlements, reparation, welfare, and mob rule. Social disorder has run amuck in our cities. We are encouraging lawlessness, racism, and insurrection in our actions and inactions. Covid caused us to disengage, become islands unto ourselves, insensitive to the division and chaos engulfing our country, worst tolerant of it! It's no longer a question of civil rights but right and wrong-,one of law and order. Once known or suspected inadequacies in our governance were debated and resolved in legislation and courts of law, not taken to the streets in violence and vengeance. That was not the way of our American representative republic but that of Banana Republics. We are regressing!