I’m on the same page as you (i.e. that the America we knew is gone). HOwever, WE ARE STILL HERE (which is what pisses THEM off beyond reason).
What can we retain? I don’t know; but I do take solace in the Bible, what’s left of the Constitution, the present, tenuous Supreme Court, the writings of Solzhenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, et al, and Free Republic. The guys on FR that give me cause for grief are the ones who comment on every positive article, saying “Nothing will happen, or none of this will do any good”. I am persuaded of better things.
Agree 100%. What if the colonists, instead of fighting for independence, just laid down and said - 'nothing will happen'. What it comes down to is the willingness to suffer for what you believe in.