How do we, as a society, go about restoring basic, fundamental moral principles?  When did it all go so wrong?  Why don't people just do what is RIGHT?  It really isn't that difficult.  Obscene greed and blatent hypocrisy has become the norm, at least with most politicians, top echelons of the corporations, and lobbyists for special (corporate) interests.  There seems that there are no boundaries at all with these people;  they do not even live among any of us, really;  further, I don't think they care at all.  About any one or anything but themselves, their own self interests and mind-boggling covetousness, as if to say, "I have mine and I want it all to myself."  Like a two year-old child who has never been taught to share.  Are we being duped by a bunch of sociopaths?  Because these people display absolutely no conscience at all.  So when did it start going so wrong?  I do believe that it did start under Ronald Reagan and his "greed is good" mentality.  And with all the deregulation of every industry, no rules to follow, no legal obligations to honor, no recourse for anyone if they get trampled--and we are ALL getting trampled--and left to run amok by, really, a bunch of greedy, stingy people who somehow lost their own souls.  We can all see the results.  That people cannot generally be trusted to be good samaritans on good faith;  It is pretty clear to me that we, as a nation, must force them to follow and obey some basic rules of conscience. These  people, and I directly blame every last rotton one of them,  they are so out of touch and out of control in every concievable way, it has become nothing but a game to these people:  the power, the money, the fame and whatever else they are constantly and pitifully striving to attain.  But there is no foundation for these people;  no scruples, no sense of basic decency, no moral compass, no knowledge or awareness...of anything really,  except their own insane and insatiable  desires.  There is absolutely nothing good about them and they offer society nothing.  Frankly, it thoroughly disgusts me and I truly do not want these people to keep breeding.  

Cheers,

Christina Marlowe