Indeed. Did not Christ Himself wonder if He would find faith when He returned? Yet there is always a remnant.
As for the Democrats,the collection of causes the DNC proper embraces are often like dying canaries in a coal mine. They should be warnings to the miners that the air they’re breathing is bad, to turn around and go back. But progress has been defined in such a way to preclude that possibility. The things they’ve been taught to believe will make them better make them worse.
Suffering serves a Divine Purpose. If we are full of ourselves and have no room for Hod, suffering empties us to make room for God.