“Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves...” Matthew 10.
Most of what is going on culturally is not understood by normal people; they are busy living their lives. We want to believe that things haven’t really changed, but they have. Normalcy bias is really hard to break. 60 years of “socially liberal, but fiscally conservative” has gotten us a real mess. We have child trannies. I didn’t vote for that. Nobody did, but we still got them. Normal people often still think that we are in an 80% white and Christian country that has a few weirdos in the big cities. It’s falling apart. Trump represents some hope, but look at how crazily the weirdos oppose him. We can only move one more exit down the interstate for so long.
I think that many people are too busy living their lives to see what’s going on about them. And when the SHTF most of them will not survive! I, like you, have lived a long life. I think I’ve, always, been acutely aware of the world around me. And, I was always waiting for the rest of the world to catch-up to my way of thinking about it. I absolutely think that for what awaits us, our only appeal is to God.