And thus, I write.
According to Bishop N.T. Wright, it was Albert Schweitzer, the famous (to my generation) Christian doctor of tropical medicine, who came up with this image:
The wheel of history was rolling downhill from the Fall of Man. Occasionally, the slope diminished - during the reigns of David and Solomon, for instance - and the wheel slowed, but the downhill trend was inexorable.
Finally, “in the fullness of time,” Jesus the Messiah came. He was born, lived, taught, and finally, He was crushed beneath the weight of the great wheel, like a grain of wheat beneath a millstone ... BUT HE STOPPED THE WHEEL, like a piece of hard candy under your shopping cart wheel. He died, but He rose, and then His disciples, empowered by His spirit, began slowly, with incredible effort, to push the great wheel back uphill.
Sometimes its progress is undiscernible. Sometimes, perhaps, it rolls back down a bit (although that perception may depend on our limited viewpoint). However, every follower of Christ, by every choice he makes in imitation of Christ, is helping to push the wheel up the hill, from the worst human beings have ever been toward ... not perfection by human effort ... but a better thing, until He returns and remakes the whole shebang in His image.
Well it would be good if you had.
But this can only be done through something that is a gospel witness. Just trying to make the country nicer won’t do it.