“a woke government with a printing press will fund their political cronies and 1000 social-engineering schemes.
Fix that, and everything else conservatives desire will fall into place.”
Oh, i think we spent well before we were woke. The real problem is that we are a socialist country, and by God, you better gimme, gimme, gimme.
This problem is not fixable by the kind of men we have today. Today government “service” is about looting the treasury of printed money.
No this problem will only fix itself when there is nothing of value that government can give our fellow socialists, and no amount of taxes can be paid to satisfy the government appetite.
We are most of the way there. The misery will be epic. The conflicts seemingly unending, but everybody who survives will understand that not only are they broke, but any program or institution they expected to help them is also broke.
Will we become a more moral society? I suspect we may, after a hopefully brief but intense descent into the immorality of anarchy, starvation, and deprivation.
From such trauma emerges a resilient sel-reliant people.
They will simply keep printing their way out of this, and the devalued dollars will continue to lead to a decrease in our standard of living. With each passing day, there are less and less “normal” Americans to resist this as they are replaced with Thirdworlders for whom this is still a step up (they have indoor plumbing, de facto “guaranteed basic income”, etc.).