Hey Leo, read Bill Fortschen's : "One Second After"
with a forward by Newt Gingrich
available at Amazon, your public library, or Kindle
and then get back to me.
One Second After was a very sad book. Everyone should read it.
The hard decisions made by the main character were appalling.
To fence off your town and let outsiders die so as to save your own people: most people have not even made the effort to entertain that philosophical scenario. It is too painful and unpleasant, and they are too weak.
A woman was violently gang raped, and they still would not let her in. They ordered her to move on at gunpoint, as she stood at the fence, crying.
The death of his daughter due to lack of insulin was heartbreaking.
Folks today as a whole are not strong and resilient. They are weak. They are not prepared to make hard decisions, or carry out those decisions.