We no longer teach character development in our country

And you can thank my generation for that. I would say "our generation" but I don't think you participated in the population segment I did. You're a few years older and had an opportunity to be a full-blown hippie but you were too busy being a decent person with critical thinking skills and a foundation to stand on. On the other hand, I was busy being a jerk and hanging around with the commie dopeheads, both as a teenager and inevitably later as a college student. You've heard it all, while I lived it all for a dozen years of nutty anti-social revolutionary anti-Americanism.

I wish you had had a deeper exposure to this America-undermining radicalism, since it was those kids who grew up to take over our teachers' colleges and schools of journalism and who now own the cultural monologue, and whose children are now trying to shove all the garbage their parents taught them down America's throat. You'd be less surprised than you are and might have a less diplomatic tone when referring to the destruction of the country. "We no longer teach character development" is directly descended from "Who's to say what's right and wrong, anyway? Everyone should decide what's right for theirself," (yes, "theirself" is a legitimate word thanks to them).