where is the courtesy?

Manners.  We don't use them as often as we used to, and it is troubling.

- Drivers pulling out in front of traffic.
- Eaters throwing their fast food waste on the highway.
- Anonymous critical posts everywhere on the internet - words that people might  not say face to face to those they are lambasting.
- Intolerance of those who are "different."  Homosexuals should be executed???   Really?  Arab Americans and Muslims should be forced to leave our county because they can't be patriotic Americans?  Huh??  Kids going hungry in our own community?  What??

This overt rudeness seems to be more prevalent of late.  Or perhaps I saturated and can't take it anymore. 

It is hard to tell if society has rubbed off on the politics of our nation, or if  politics has given people permission to be openly sanctimonious and and mean.  Whatever the cause, we, as a people, are out of sync with what most of us were taught about courtesy and kindness toward others, including the "others" that we don't understand, or the "others" that look and live differently than most.

I suggest more efforts toward "doing unto others" and looking for opportunities to do good deeds.  God knows, we need more kindness.