As regards your last point, Garner Ted Armstrong (lousy messenger, correct message) had it right in his tract entitled the Modern Romans. We’ve got a situation where the decent are belittled, degenerates and degeneracy are celebrated, the young males largely feel themselves too good to serve in uniform (look at the ‘leaders’), hard work is diminished and indolence is subsidized. This cannot last.
Yeats hit the nail on the head:
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html
‘. . . the center cannot hold . . .’