Orlando, Fla. (home of giant theme parks) has 2 high profile murders in under 24 hours

[Peter Lemkin]

the apparent general lack of civility that seems to be permeating American culture.

Well, aside from many other political and social actions and their intended or unintended consequences, Americans have long [and perhaps in recent times increasingly] followed on a personal level what they see the Nation doing, as a whole, in foreign policy through violence [wars, covert operations, government overthrows, assassinations, bombings, surgical strikes by special forces, drone strikes, torture, renditions, other violent and illegal actions]. The Nation sets an abominable and illegal/immoral example which sadly all too many follow at lower levels such as the Govt. Agencies, Military, Spooks, Private Security Entities, the Police at all levels, corporations, and individuals. We have a very sick, dysfunctional, and VIOLENT society....and a culture of violence and guns, ends-justify-means, greed-is-good, amorality that permeates it - not humane values - despite the Potemkin Village rhetoric.