[enumerated]

“...I lean toward the explanation of at least Divine Nudge rather than “we got lucky.”

Oh, I see where our misunderstanding arose:

When I said “we got lucky”, I didn’t mean it in the sense that we “rolled the dice”. I just meant that we were very fortunate, which, in my book, does not preclude a Divine Nudge.

[arthurus]

All that being said i don't think the Repubic is saved or can be saved for the long term. The problem is the Education system. Hollywood and MSM can be overcome an/or ignored. The schools cannot. We have several generations of people in the Republic now who have no knowledge of History and no connection with the Enlightenment or with even normal reasoning. Almost half of everybody is ready to believe whatever sounds good and something that takes individual work and accountability doesn't sound good. We cannot fix Education with the passing of a law or an EO. The Teachers colleges are every bit as rotten as the public and most private schools.

It is similar but much grander than the situation in Israel and Gaza, Judea and Samaria. All the arab children have been taught in their schools that Jews and Christians are spawn of Satan and must be killed or enslaved and Israel must be wiped out along with all Jews everywhere in the world. There is no way there can ever be any amicable agreement between the Israel-area arabs and Israel.