“Old woman moralizes at cloud”

Those ‘good old days’ she harkens back to weren’t so good for a lot of people who didn’t look like her or live in her neighborhood. She and her ilk are concerned about the veneer of civility, of the performative politeness that people used to have to show to the privileged in our society; not being a better society, but maintaining for the privileged the illusion they’re part of a better society.