Columns/Opinions, Editorial
A Nation Adrift
Something has gone terribly wrong in America, and most people already know it even if they can’t agree on why. A Gallup survey conducted just last month found that 56 percent of Americans now rate the moral values of the United States as “poor,” a record high, and 80 percent say those values are getting worse. That is not a partisan finding. For the first time in Gallup’s trend, majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents have all simultaneously rated moral values as poor.