Honesty has certainly fallen by the wayside. And winking and nodding (I don’t mean sleeping) leads to more winking and nodding, until eventually, getting along to get along, a people tolerates the sort of fraud that just happened — tolerates it for the sake of form. Everyone who still cares about the country ought to be screaming bloody murder right now.
No, everyone who cares about the country should be very properly preparing if they weren’t already prepared.