I partially agree with the author; it’s getting dangerous out there.
However, I remember stories told by my parents who grew up in the 1920s and Great Depression:
My mother grew up in a small town in Central Texas. There was a motel where traveling salesmen stayed. The owners of the motel allowed the salesmen to have sex with their 13 y/o daughter who was retarded. They did it to make more money from renting the rooms.
Mom also told me there was a fair amount of wife beating and child abuse going on.
An immigrant German farmer let the local black people, who were close to starvation, glean food from his fields after he harvested. The KKK showed up at midnight and shot him at his front door. The bullet went through him and hit his daughter.
We have appalling problems today, but I have faith in the American people. Our country will stumble, fall, argue about the causes, and, ultimately, muddle through.
I didn’t know you were a fellow central Texan. Nice to “meet” you.
We are not yet totally depraved, there are more than just pockets of order and decency. Some areas will fare far better than others as a result.