{"id":2271893,"date":"2024-06-19T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-moral-and-economic-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:17:51","slug":"americas-moral-and-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-moral-and-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Ethical and Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-moral-and-economic-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2271893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the concept\u2064 of \u200bAmerica shifting from a\u200d guilt-based society to a shame-based society and ultimately to what is described as a post-shame society. This evolution \u2062is linked to a decline in religious\u200d influence, shifting \u2062moral standards, and the nature of political correctness. The author argues that this shift in societal norms has led to \u2064political and moral crises in\u2063 the U.S., where politicians and society no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-rest-is-restored-sabbath-and-jesus-redemption-in-the-new-testament\/\" title=\"Restored Rest: Sabbath and Redemption in the New Testament\">longer feel compelled<\/a> to act morally or responsibly. Shame, once a societal tool to enforce moral\u2062 behavior, \u2062has lost its impact, resulting\u2063 in a \u200clack of accountability\u200c among leaders. This,\u200b in turn, impacts broader \u2063issues \u2064such \u2064as national defense and economic stability, with increasing debt payments \u200bexceeding defense expenditures \u2062being cited \u2063as indicative of governmental instability. The critique extends\u200b to contemporary political and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-ceo-boasts-he-took-job-to-change-twitter-for-the-better-culture-warrior-abigail-shrier-who-was-doxxed-on-twitter-blasts-him\/\" title=\"Twitter CEO Boasts He Took Job To \u2018Change Twitter For The Better.\u2019 Culture Warrior Abigail Shrier, Who Was \u2018Doxxed\u2019 On Twitter, Blasts Him.\">cultural phenomena<\/a>, suggesting a \u200bdisconnect between societal actions and traditional moral \u2063obligations. The overall tone \u200bof \u2063the piece is pessimistic about the future of American politics and society, suggesting\u2063 a dire need for a \u200dreturn to internal moral standards and responsible governance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">America is in the middle of a very serious moral and economic crisis \u2014 and these two crises are deeply interconnected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Axios <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/18\/trump-gop-scotus-musk-shame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  titled, \u201cNever back down: Rich and powerful exploit post-shame society,\u201d exposes some interesting information about this. Zachary Basu writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">America is reaching the pinnacle of a post-shame society forged by Donald Trump and reinforced by powerful patrons. Nearly 50 years after Richard Nixon resigned before ever being charged with a crime, the GOP is a month away from nominating a convicted felon to be president. Polls suggest the race is extremely close. While he may represent the most extreme example, Trump isn\u2019t the only one who has realized a lack of shame can be a crucial survival skill.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put aside the fact that our \u201cpost-shame political society\u201d actually arrived with Bill Clinton \u2014 when it turned out you could overtly make the case it was fine to mess with the interns because that was just a \u201csex issue.\u201d \u201cPost-shame society\u201d has been in place for a very long time in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The real question in the United States is: Why don\u2019t we have a guilt-based society?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cultural anthropologists distinguish between two different types of societies when it comes to your internal feelings about anything you have done wrong: guilt-based societies and shame-based societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guilt-based societies are internally directed; they are typically linked with Judaic and Christian moral systems. These would be systems in which you feel guilty before God because you have violated God\u2019s moral scruples. A person feels an internal sense of guilt, whether or not anybody knows about what they did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A shame-based society is one in which the society sets the standard, and society makes you feel ashamed and makes you \u201close face.\u201d Cultural anthropologists closely associate shame-based societies with countries like Japan or China. The idea is that you will be shamed into doing what is right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the course of the last several decades as religion has declined in America, guilt-based society shifted into shame-based society, which has now shifted into a post-shame society. We were once a guilt-based society; people felt an internal obligation to act morally at the political level. That meant, politicians felt an actual sense of responsibility to solve the problems they were charged with solving.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1987-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politicians didn\u2019t have to be shamed into acting morally; they felt an internal moral compulsion to try to do things that they\u2019d been tasked with doing. They felt a moral duty to do the right thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the decline of religion and a belief in moral absolutes, society shifted to a shame-based society, and political correctness replaced our moral system \u2014 and God. People would shame you into saying certain things or acting certain ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That has reared its ugly head in wokeness \u2014 the idea of shaming someone in public if they didn\u2019t use the proper pronouns; say untrue things about America being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aj-rice-how-long-until-hispanics-are-white-adjacent-2\/\" title=\"AJ Rice: How Long Until Hispanics Are \"White Adjacent\"?\">white supremacist society<\/a>; put dumb lawn signs out that state, \u201cIn this house, we believe\u2026\u201d; or post a black square during Black Lives Matter to proclaim solidarity with people who were rioting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you didn\u2019t, you were publicly shamed. We became a shame-based society because all your actions were directed toward the public and what the public thinks of you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now we have reached the reaction to that, which is the post-shame society. Basu is correct that we are a post-shame society, but I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> think it revolves around Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I <em>do<\/em> think it has to do with our entire rootless, Godless system. Once you have a society that casts out God in favor of societal shaming and then replaces societal shaming with the blowback to that, the standards of the society are plainly wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus, we won\u2019t return to internal feelings about a moral God and what He demands of us. We\u2019re going to practice moral relativism in a society that has a really bad set of standards, which means we will just have <em>no standards at all<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You end up with shamelessness on every single side of the political realm. That means our politicians become frivolous, shameless, and stupid, and they don\u2019t care about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-jan-6-hearing-coverage-is-complicity-in-campaign-to-fool-the-public\/\" title=\"Tucker: Jan 6 Hearing Coverage Is Complicity in Campaign to Fool the Public\">actual problems facing<\/a> the United States of America on a broad scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is why I\u2019m quite pessimistic about the possibility that our politicians actually solve our problems because they don\u2019t feel they are somehow implicated in our country\u2019s problems on a moral level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They don\u2019t feel a higher moral impulse to do what is right, simply because it\u2019s right. Today, very few Americans \u2014 unless they are regular churchgoers, people who are deeply ensconced in religious community \u2014 feel an internal compulsion to do the right thing anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Particular politicians may be interested in solving problems from time to time, but overall, the general kind of arc of the political universe in the United States bends towards foolish frivolity, toward bread and games as the Republic dies from the inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This directly relates to economics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a chart from the Federal Reserve that shows the federal government\u2019s national defense consumption expenditures and gross investments. The entrance payments on our debt now exceed what we spend on national defense every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a very real problem. If what we are paying to bondholders, many of whom are foreign bondholders, exceeds what we are spending on our national defense, that is the sign of an unstable and sick governmental structure. It means that we are not going to have the actual resources in order to arm up, to face a hostile world, to keep the seas free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are not going to have the ability to ensure shipping lanes. We\u2019re not going to have the capacity to defend Taiwan; a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would disrupt the semiconductor market and amount to a global depression of extreme severity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Jonathan van Ness from \u201cQueer Eye For The Straight Guy\u201d is at the White House gallivanting around in a dress. There are still families of the soldiers killed in Afghanistan who have never been to the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The national debt is now so extreme that it will exceed $50 trillion by 2034, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2024\/06\/18\/national-debt-budget-projections-cbo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congressional Budget Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They projected yesterday the federal debt will exceed 122% of the United State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-china-to-collect-14-billion-in-debt-servicing-costs-from-worlds-poorest-nations-in-2022\/\" title=\"Study: China to Collect  Billion in Debt Servicing Costs from World\u2019s Poorest Nations in 2022\">annual economic output<\/a> by 2034. The deficit will swell to $1.9 trillion this fiscal year and keep growing until the overall national debt hits $50.7 trillion a decade from now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The budget in the United States continues to expand. Medicare and Social Security are running low on funds. Within just a few years, the interest on the debt is going to exceed the payments we owe for Social Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a bipartisan problem because our frivolous political class doesn\u2019t feel any sort of guilt-based moral impetus to solve serious problems. Instead, they push those serious problems into next week for the purposes of winning today. And then, once they win, what are the actual demands that are made upon them? Fairly minimal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the job of our politicians to telescope and balance our present needs with the needs of the future. But our politicians don\u2019t want to do this anymore. They\u2019ve abdicated any sort of guilt-based obligation to do the right thing simply because it\u2019s the unpopular thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nobody actually wants to take responsibility for solving the serious problems that face the country. Few of our politicians are capable of even looking down the line at the serious problems we face because there\u2019s no internal compass driving them to solve the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that is a genuine bipartisan problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America faces a severe moral and economic crisis, closely linked, according to an Axios article by Zachary Basu. Titled &#8220;Never back down: Rich and powerful exploit post-shame society,&#8221; it highlights America&#8217;s peak as a post-shame society shaped by the affluent and influential, revealing deep societal issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":2271894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1478426877.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1478426877.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}