A golfer shot one of three youths trying to rob a foursome at a DeKalb County golf course last week. We have more and more gated communities, and by that I don't mean charming, courting gates swinging off of picket fences like in a Jimmy Stewart movie. I mean guarded gates on high fences, keeping the haves safe and the have-nots out. We have people driving cars that cost more than houses, and we have the homeless camping out on steam grates and foraging trash bins for food. The middle class is disappearing, and you don't hear much about it.
Politicians are too busy investigating one another's sex lives even to raise the minimum wage.
But you can see the result. You see it everywhere. The United States is not aging and maturing in a civilized way. We have country club golfers and we have those desperate enough to steal. There's not a whole lot in between anymore.