OPINION 'Choosing to be better neighbors – by asking what we can do for our community and our country instead of demanding they do something for us – is the way to improvement,' writes Tucson resident Julie Doll.
We all want to have good neighbors, but most of us don’t think about whether we are good neighbors ourselves.It might be starting noisy yard work early in the morning. Or failing to clean up after our pets. Or using our car key fobs to lock vehicles — and honk our horns — late at night.
Yet many Americans think they are entitled to have really loud cars, pickups and motorcycles because, well, because they want to. And I am not among those who complain that people used to behave much better. I do not believe that Americans over successive generations have abandoned traditional values and common civility — traits that once made us a great nation.
Of course, some Americans, a relative few, will argue this is all woke madness, and we should return America to those days when men could beat their wives and slaves with impunity. That’s contrary to the pandering so popular today, as politicians vow to cut our taxes, forgive our debts, hand out freebies, keep law enforcement from enforcing laws we don’t like, and to increase enforcement of laws we do like.
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