We are not worse off now than when we were killing each other with bayonets. Or when people were literally starving in the streets during the Depression. Or even than during the horrible upheaval of counterculture during the Vietnam War.
We’ve survived worse. Then again ... conservatives had a backbone back then.
I don’t disagree that a cultural change is needed. We’ve had them before, we can have one again. We had one in the 60s. We had one again in the 80s. We had one to get from there to here. Culture is malleable. Change it.
Four years of Carter woke people up and brought on the prospersous 80s, 90s and early 00s. Eight years of Obama could very well do the same.
We’ve survived worse. Repeatedly.
SnakeDoc
War is Hell, but people at least were willing to die for their convictions and had character on both sides of the Civil War. The depression was bad, but people banded together, and they starved far less than you are suggesting. The Sixties were only the beginning of the downgrade we now face. We haven’t faced worse repeatedly, we’ve never had a cultural decline such as this one. If you can read this, digest its implications and not say we are in worse trouble than ever, you’re a better man than I am. Btw, I admire your optimism, just don’t share it right now (and I’m an inherently VERY optimistic person): http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/03/polls-nation-that-re-elected-obama-wants-more-spending-cuts-than-tax-hikes-still-hates-obamacare/