I know where you are coming from and I know how you feel...The problem I see is that there aren’t enough of us young enough to do what needs to be done anymore...The “under 50” crowd just doesn’t seem to care anymore and have become too complacent...
As weird as it sounds, I think we old-timers are in better shape to fight than today’s lard-ass youth.
It's the boiling frog. Young Americans don't how good things once were, or could be again. They're comfortable with the decay, because everyone is comfortable with the familiar.
Ayn Rand's sister visited Rand in the 1960s or 1970s. Rand was eager to settle her sister into the U.S., but her sister didn't like America and returned to the Soviet Union. Rand lamented that if someone spends their whole life in slavery, they often prefer it to freedom.