"This is an exercise in mass suicide, made possible by a decadent society protected from the reality of suffering and delivered by a vehicle of emergency mandates, orders, and dictates no nation of real men would ever have accepted.", McDonald wrote.
It's not a decadent society, it's a society in which a decadent portion is disproportionately empowered by a syndicate that's blackmailing politicians and policymakers.
One Nation Under Blackmail
Men have wised up:

Men will persevere and ultimately prevail, as they have against every tyranny in the history of our species. The harder times get, the harder men will become.