INTRODUCTION Bold Statement: Currently America has lost its moral compass! Bold summary: Over the past decade many observers argue that the United States has experienced a measurable erosion of civic norms and moral leadership-manifest in foreign policy failures, domestic rights rollbacks, immigration practices, democratic stress, and persistent racialized violence (to name a majority few)-each documented in official reports and independent research. This prologue will also discuss cultural shifts that tend to cause changes in American morals and values over-time...right or wrong, good or bad. Scholars and commentators locate the moral shift not in a single event but in a pattern of policy choices and institutional failures that, together, altered public expectations about government responsibility and ethical leadership. Concrete episodes discussed in this work and official findings provide the evidentiary basis for that claim.
INTRODUCTION Bold Statement: Currently America has lost its moral compass! Bold summary: Over the past decade many observers argue that the United States has experienced a measurable erosion of civic norms and moral leadership-manifest in foreign policy failures, domestic rights rollbacks, immigration practices, democratic stress, and persistent racialized violence (to name a majority few)-each documented in official reports and independent research. This prologue will also discuss cultural shifts that tend to cause changes in American morals and values over-time...right or wrong, good or bad. Scholars and commentators locate the moral shift not in a single event but in a pattern of policy choices and institutional failures that, together, altered public expectations about government responsibility and ethical leadership. Concrete episodes discussed in this work and official findings provide the evidentiary basis for that claim.
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