No..we act in faith, knowing that our ultimate help comes from God the father! God won’t necessarily help someone who helps himself if the goal of that individual is simply to “help himself”!
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might as unto the Lord” Proverbs
We fail when we forget God. These nations are after all “drops in a bucket” and God is always raising them up and pulling them down. God may often help in a collective fashion but each individual’s salvation is his or her own, purchased by the blood of Christ!
Christians are to pray for their temporal government and leaders...but we must never forget where are “true nation” is located!
“God won’t necessarily help someone who helps himself if the goal of that individual is simply to “help himself”!”
The point here is not to help ourselves for the sake of feeling good about it so I am unsure if you are just being contrary for the sake of it or if you think quoting the Bible out of context somehow adds to the discussion.
My understanding of God, as much as any human can be said to understand God, is that he frowns mightily on things like liars, abortion, greed, backstabbing, theft, tyranny...you know, all the things the GOP is helping the Dems do and taking part in it themselves.
I also understand we are commanded to oppose these things. So when you set aside all the peripherial stuff, we are indeed acting Biblically, conforming to his will and all the good parts. We are not helping ourselves as an attempt to buy our way into heaven.