I pray you are right and I love your optimism, but I can’t agree with you.
There was a time when the vast majority of American’s worshiped the Lord and followed Christ’s teachings. They were fairly self-reliant and did not expect others to provide for them. There were of course some criminals and slackers, but the vast majority were fairly honest, hardworking, and good. Had a “can do” mentality and pitched in to help others.
Those days seem behind us. Half of Americans want or expect a free ride and many of these do not worship or believe in God. They want socialism and big government and they are more than happy to surrender their freedom and rights for entitlement money and “stuff”.
I pray and will continue to pray you are right, but I greatly fear that “the people” to which you refer are no longer. We are becoming a balkanized, disparate mass of people with differing agendas a great body of whom want others to do the hard work and sacrifice required to subsist let alone to thrive.
But I will continue to pray that you are right.
Half of americans don’t merely want or expect a free ride, they damn well demand it. And get it. The politicians at all levels and both parties are too gutless to deal with it. So, we will continue on until we have total economic and social collapse. It is inevitable.