With all the turmoil in the world right now, I see the lack of simple respect. All yearn for it, not all deserve it. If you take what is not yours, you show no respect for the owner of the item stolen nor respect for yourself. If you knowingly lie about someone, you show no respect for the person you lied about nor respect for yourself. The problem stems from the inability of someone valuing him or herself. If you show that you are devoid of self respect and respect of others, you are nothing more than an animal, searching for a position in the pack.

It doesn’t really matter what your skin color is, your education level or gender. If you were raised with no respect for yourself, the law, or others property, there really is no way for you to be considered human until you learn respect. A person instinctually yearns for it, they seek it out. But they confuse fear to respect. If they can’t obtain true respect, they will settle for fear. If you can get others to fear you, that is a psuedo replacement for true respect.

Respect comes from love. You must love yourself in order to respect yourself. But how can you learn to love yourself for who you are without someone showing you? Years ago, the government started becoming a psuedo parent when so many people were having children out of wedlock and abandoning the responsability of parenthood. Do you really think the gov’t cares about your child or children in general? It was only a way to make those single mothers dependent on the gov’t and a reason to increase taxes.

We now see the true effects of a society that lacks respect, pure chaos. It will be the downfall of a once proud and great nation known as America. You want to make it great again ( because it is not now) bring back respect. Respect for life, freedom, the rule of law, other peoples things and mostly for yourself. Without it, without demanding if from yourself and others and holding others responsible for not showing it, America deserves to become “the country formerly known as America”