No, I’m afraid I don’t share your confidence. People are obvioulsy a product of their culture and their times, so I’m hardly condemning individuals. And it has more to do perhaps with worldview than grit. American culture has now cultivated generations that cower before PC dictates, wallow in moral relativism, and have an “entitlement” sensibility towards everything. That’s where I see weakness and decline. Would these things be quickly tossed off if dire circumstances arose?
I once had faith they would be, but the last few years have been teaching me otherwise. I see people letting Obama get away with his lawlessness, I see the GOP unwilling to fight on anything, I see open-borders, I see homo-fascists going after bakers and wedding photographers with little to no pushback. It’s endless. I just see no proof anymore that America has any kind of spine.
I think you’re dead wrong, but we’ll see I guess. The future isn’t predetermined. It’s ours if we work for it, but all bets are off if we don’t.
I don’t see how a gloom and doom mindset is of any help going forward.