I definitely agree with your assessment of the cause of this, most especially how it relates to people having left God.
I am not a libertarian, and I don’t have a party or any interest in power.
I do have an interest in my own power over myself, but that’s it.
I do not believe that men can be trusted with power over other men.
I believe they have thoroughly proven that they cannot be trusted with power at all, no matter how small that power is.
My personal belief is that every society is doomed to eventual failure, because mankind is corrupt.
I’m not sure how to fix that, maybe there is no fixing it, but if there is any answer at all, it lies in Jesus Christ and nowhere else.
And I agree with your assessment 100%. I apologize for alluding to you as a libertarian. We are overrun with them on on FR, it seems.