It is late, but not too late. We just have to understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch, the exaggerations of the welfare state has to be rolled back.
I will quote Upton Sinclair here.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
If you think you are going to convince the well fed parasites to quit being parasites, you are out of your mind. Might as well try to convince a tick to release from a dog.
Ain't gonna happen.