When that which is urgent supersedes that which is important, then the important things soon become urgent due to neglect.
To everything there is a season, but you cannot ignore important items, especially when they will ultimately be a piece of the same urgent puzzle.
I see you are drawing from that classic
Urgent vs. Important
matrix.
It is urgent and important for us to try to save this republic, but it may possibly not be doable.
When a soldier is given an urgent and important but impossible order, what is he to do? He is ordered straight to his death, perhaps. That is when he makes his choice about which master he is to follow.
As a country, we are rapidly approaching that choice-point.