Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?

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Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?

Are those qualities dead everywhere?

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Vigilantism is driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense is feared by our oligarch and plutocrat owners. That vigilantism, I think, is what used to keep the politician in line and our oligarch owners more generous towards their underlings/us.

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Justice and the American Dream were driven by a sense of justice and morality. That sense of justice and morality has been replaced, at the top of the demographic pyramid, and our new owners, by the new sense that the acquisition of wealth is now the moral and just ideal. The oligarchs’ new God is now money.

The rich, in their gated communities, think themselves secure and think that their huge wealth will protect them and isolate them from justice. They do not fear vigilantes as they seem to think that the heart and desire for justice is no longer in the average American heart.

Are they correct?

Are we all willing to continue in such a system where the rich, while driving by the poor, not only do not care for them or their plight, but also take what little the poor have as they drive on by?

I call that theft with the collusion and help of their political elected slaves, eh, politicians I mean.

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DL

Yes. It's been dead since 1963, when JFK was assinated and LBJ was sworn in. The counterculture of that era are now the leaders of today, and look at the mess they put us in.

Ronald Reagan put the nail in the coffin. The mantra of the current leadership in both parties is Gilbert Gekko's "Greed is Good" mantra.

To quote Walt Kelly's Pogo, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

nah. it just loses every argument with what passes for a conservative these days.

these days a cop can beat up a high school girl for being sassy and people will say she deserved it.

I am from
Australia and I don't really know what the American sense of Justice and Morality is. Is it better dead or alive?

"Is the American sense of justice and morality dead?"

I think that perhaps it is very much alive at the extremes of any given attribute. I also believe that the populous is manipulated into thinking they must choose one extreme or the other because they are under attack. So, take any topic and you have two senses of justice and morality, and by design they are mutually exclusive. Now, let's say you were a modern capitalist and you wanted to ensure the growth of your wealth. This would be a *wonderful* way to keep the masses too busy to pay much attention to what you and your buddies are actually doing. Interesting thing is, with most of these conflicts both sides think they are being attacked. You can tell that it's been manufactured if only one side has their American life, liberty and pursuit actually reduced (ie one side has been granted a right or legal exemption the other has not). Yet the side that has not actually been harmed has been convinced that theirs is being threatened and so use their privilege to oppress the other. At that point it becomes a sustainable manipulation, more or less frozen at some rough, dynamic balance. Oh, and on both sides there are politicians, religious leaders and non-profit CEO's that are making money hand over fist off "their" side without providing anything real.

James Elroy, in his novel American Tabloid, had written about America and it's sense of morality (paraphrased probably, as I'm going by memory): "America was never innocent. We popped our cherry when we came over on the Mayflower."

Depends on how one one defines morality and justice. If we go with a classic definition, I don't think America's sense of justice and morality is dead, just confused at times.

Morality and Justice in the United States of America is DEAD? DEAD?

You must be wrong....here, I'll ask this Native American over here if that's true. HaHa^2.

Rich, powerful and greedy people have always been part of the human condition.

They've always owned/controlled politicians and created laws for their own benefit.

The dream of hope, charity and freedom for all was written for and by rich people.

Please don't let yourself be fooled.