It is getting scary.
People in this country have become so pacified by the relative piece and calm of the last 60 years. Sometimes people need to look at films of the depression and even people escaping the Blitz in Poland and realize that those things ARE possible.
Every generation must be diligent on many fronts. We have not been. We have been fortunate and are an accident just waiting to happen. A quite bad one, I fear - and to say we are "soft" would be a severe understatement.