I think we have gone beyond the point of pretending that all is well.It is about time, in mho.
We can’t avoid facing the hard choices, and the hard times ahead. We have to be willing endure these. But the majority of our coddled citizens are not able or willing or able to deal with reality.
It is sad that it has come to this. Generally young women have no domestic skills, young men have no husbandry skills. They are not ready/able/motivated to do anything but consume and whine.
Generally, all “urbans” of both sexes depend on fast food restaurants and coffee houses to get by from day to day. So, let’s not even worry about how to knit a pair of socks, turn a collar, or capture wild yeast so they can raise a decent loaf of bread, or change a tire/take down a deer/slaughter and dress chickens for the canning jar or freezer.
No wonder the young women would rather depend on the welfare office, lawyers, and the corrupt judicial system, never considering that they need someone up close and personal who can hunt, field dress, dig a well, and keep the weasels away from the chicken coop .
We no longer have families, communities, and a sense of personal responsibilities to the same. We have now totally lost our culture, and the noble experiment given to us, from our founding fathers who suffered with much blood, personal loss, and family disintegration because of their bravery, and we don’t even blink an eye at the cost to them.
Only God can save us from our selves, and ( if I were him, would do much more than hurl a mega asteroid our way) for we, supposedly the best thing since white bread in the history of governing systems, are perilously close total melt down, if not a complicated cold civil war.
We casually kill unborn babies, arguing about which week is acceptable for murdering the developing infant, demanding sensitivity to mentally deranged women who do not recognize an innocent fetus as something other than their own right to destroy, because they assume god-like powers over nature.
I pray for them, that they understand that it is about something bigger than what they want/need/think matters most.
The barbarians are gonna win, for they have no scruples, morals, or ethics. All they care about is winning.
Do “modern” christians care all that much about fighting the barbarians in our midst right now. We are hoping it all goes away, but from my vantage point, it doesn’t look likely. I am not sure we have the courage of our founding fathers. Actually, if were to be honest, I AM PRETTY SURE WE DON’T.
We are not close. We are already in a civil war -- one that, while not yet fully boiling over, is definitely no longer cold. If the Left keeps on the same trajectory they've been on, those of us on the Right will have only two choices: totally capitulate or openly fight back.
But I don't think all is lost. In a SHTF situation, I think they will come up to speed rather quickly. I still remember my Marine Corps boot camp where soft civilians who were still living with their parents were transformed into warriors in 11 weeks. Not only were they expert with M16 rifles and hand grenades but they were sewing buttons on shirts and making their beds so tight you could bounce a quarter on it. Human beings are very adaptable.