Discuss the current state of America and the extent to which it has returned to a culture of hatred and bigotry.
Mr. Hecker, you ask what this country is coming to but maybe the question is "what is the country going back to?" 
Remember those black and white photographs of the racist southerners, their faces pinched in expressions of hatred aimed at African American children attending schools in the segregated south? This is what America is embracing--ignorant white trash culture. Mmmwah! Americans are embracing vulgarity and brutality like an old friend.