—and the right is just sitting there and trying to pretend these problems away—
Actually, the right (at least in my case) is taking action where it will matter: precious metals, seeds, farm land, gold silver and, most importantly, bullets and implements with which to use them to protect the previously mentioned items.
I constantly implore my conservative friends to not waste their time as Dagney Taggart did. It will go no better for them than it did for her, and probably much worse - no “happy ending”. Our current situation (worldwide) has no human or political solution. My most powerful weapon is Prayer.
And as a visiting pastor said at my old church back in the mid-1980’s: “Where would the early church have been if they had put their faith in Rome.”
Countries come and go, and this one had an exceptional run, but eventually human nature destroys what it touches as it always does.
The rank and file yes, the politicians, no.
I don’t see anyone on the political stage that is for destructing the edifice of the unanswerable bureaucratic system that has been expanding since FDR.