Eggzackly. All (and I mean all) of our pathologies are fundamentally moral pathologies. Libertarian conservatives need to open their eyes. Generation Y came of age when perjury by a president became acceptable, when an entire culture shifted from the assumption that a few jerks would see how much they could get away with but most people wanted to be honest (even if only because being dishonest and a constant liar was looked down upon by society).
Now it is simply assumed that everyone lies all the time about everything and caveat emptor. Indeed, the pendulum has swung even farther: the really skillful liars are celebrated for their really skillful lying. Sure BJCLintoon is a congenital liar, but he’s so skilled at it politically that we have to admire him—that’s what people were saying when the Generatio Xers came of age in the late 1990s.
That’s our problem: fundamental immorality, dishonesty, lack of integrity. No society can flourish under those circumstances
When Generation Y-ers came of age in the late 1990s, not Generation Xers.