Agreed. Americans are their own worst enemy because we are a people who for the most part have rejected the vertical (Holy Trinity and Moral Law) in favor of the horizontal-—our own autonomous yet corrupt opinions (feelings). This state of affairs holds true at every level of society in thrall to reckless ignorance, pathological narcissism, and out-of-control passions, compulsions, and other spiritual disorders inflated into expert opinion and recently discovered rights and privileges measured by suffering (victimization.
Exactly.
Putin didn’t force Americans to vote for Obama, or throw away our freedom for a chance to be taken care of via welfare.