What raised the Americans’ awareness of the significance of civility and the iniquity of incivility is that uncivil communication is increasingly committed even by those who are typically the ones least expected to say so like politicians or public figures. In the American society, civility continues to be a potential problem and what makes it worse is social media. Civility and respect for the communicative rules of conduct have been lost in modern American politics. On many occasions, the fierce forfeiture of civility is mourned in the American society as it has missed a great deal of “moral focus”. Civility is the palpable provenance of power and an “acceptable ploy” in the American society which asserts the cultural superiority of some citizens rather than others. Thus, Americans have been preoccupied with the concept of civility.
Civility is the “thickest ethicalness” that must be intensively invigorated especially in societies accentuated by inscrutable moral tangle like the American society. In this regard, civility, in the American society, needs to be refashioned and wrested from the jaws of cultural wars. What is even worse, the spirit of incivility is pervaded in the American society like cancer. On this point, civility is a learned grammar of sociability and a measure of the health of societies where every citizen is responsible for civility.
Civility is not a fact of nature as it can be personally chosen, molded, encouraged, nurtured, and rewarded. The American society suffers which is the decline of civility. American people look at incivility as a national problem that is woefully worsened. On this point, the basis causes of incivility are political campaigns, social media, pop culture, and the music industry.
American people consider the 2016 presidential election as uncivil and they come to an agreement that uncivil speech by political leaders promotes greater incivility. Likewise, in the American society, the early twenty-first century, especially in the presidency of Donald Trump, is accentuated by anger, disrespect, incivility, and insult. A downbeat standpoint of civility can be set forth when he describes it as a problem and an endless enigma in the United States where the American society confronts a severe and serious civility scarcity in their dialogic exchanges and such civility scarcity, indeed, needs a close examination. Hence, the main attraction of dialogic civility is its rareness. However, the context of American Providence Court shows some signs of the availability of dialogic civility where the Chief Judge of American Providence Court, Judge Frank Caprio, does not seem like the hard-handed judge that others have shown themselves to be, though he is fair and judicious in his dealing with the defendants.Put another way, he follows the law and yet shows a level of civility, respect, and compassion that are not typically found in other courts.
