It's the American people who are to blame, for it is we who have lost our morality and our love, knowledge, and respect for our Constitution
Much of today's language usage demonstrates a desire to be nonjudgmental. People used to shack up; now they cohabit or are living partners. Few young women of yesteryear would have felt comfortable to publicly declare they slept around. Unmarried women used to give birth to a bastard; 
later, this was upgraded to an illegitimate birth or a nonmarital birth.
Walter Williams examines a
U.S. In Decline As Morals, Standards Just Keep Slipping Away.
To be judgmental about modern codes of conduct is to risk being
labeled a prude, racist, sexist or a homophobe. People ignore the fact
that to accept another's right to engage in certain peaceable, voluntary
behavior doesn't require moral acceptance or sanction.
Another measure of social deviancy is reflected by the excuses and
apologies that are made for failures and how we make mascots out of
social misfits, such as criminals and bums.
The intellectual elite tell us that it's poverty or racism that
produces criminals, as opposed to a moral defect. We call bums homeless people.
That suggests a moral equivalency between people who have lost their
homes in a fire or natural disaster and people who choose to be social
parasites; therefore, neither group is to be blamed for its respective
condition.
People who are very productive members of our society, such as the rich, are often held up to ridicule and scorn.
… Clinton's … kind of lawlessness helped establish a precedent for lawless
acts by President Barack Obama. His most recent was an executive order
that suspended legal liability for young people who are brought to our
country illegally by their parents.
He also repealed the legal requirement that welfare recipients must
work, by simply redefining "work" to include other things, such as going
to classes on weight control.
Then there are waivers from ObamaCare for favored allies — waivers that offend the principle of equality before the law.
Whether the president's actions were good or bad ideas or not is
irrelevant. What's relevant is whether we want to establish a precedent
whereby a president, who has no constitutional authority to repeal parts
of congressional legislation, can grant special favors and rule by
presidential decree like Third World tyrants.
I don't hold President Obama completely responsible for his
unconstitutional actions. It's the American people who are to blame, for
it is we who have lost our morality and our love, knowledge and respect
for our Constitution, laying the foundation for Washington tyranny.
It is all part and parcel of "defining deviancy down," which is the
term former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined in 1993 to describe
how we've switched from moral absolutes to situational morality and
from strict constitutional interpretation to the Constitution being a
"living document."
Constitutional principles that do not allow one American to live at the expense of another American are to be held in contempt.
Today's Americans have betrayed the values that made us a great nation, and that does not bode well for future generations.
