I believe it was the late Andrew Breitbart who pointed out that politics is downstream from culture. I've always considered that an astute and important observation. It calls attention to the fact that politics doesn't create our culture but rather our culture forms the political landscape.

So that got me thinking about what was responsible for or upstream from our culture. It seems to me that the answer is morals. The moral values we hold determine the culture we consider acceptable and even participate in forming.

As a result if our morality founders or becomes corrupted then the evidence will manifest in the culture at large. So, if we consider the culture in which we are living, what does that say about the state of our morals?