I largely agree with what you said.
“most people do not desire to go the way of a sheep in Montana, and, at the same time be shorn of everything they hold dear as a national culture.”
I hope you are right. I sometimes have my doubts. I don’t know for sure if we still have the blood of patriots like Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Travis, Bowie, Crockett et al still running through our veins.
We still have some, they have mostly volunteered in the services already..if we could only see more of them in the media..more are here..by education deprivation they have suffered, however, with regard to ‘who we are and where we come from’ (THe Last Samu.rai)....but there really are enough..we are not bereft of fine leaders..they will appear..there are actually many waking up In this regard, Britain has completely, in the last month, eliminated Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin from their ‘high school’ curricula..nothing like erasing history, cleaning the board, and, incidentally, leaving it clean by graduation time with a public reward for having been caught leaving no butt-mark on the seat of any classroom while they were there...eom