Fighting Fatalism After the End of America As We Know It

From Jon Gabriel, at Ricochet, "Fighting Fatalism":

NEVER. GIVE. UP. pic.twitter.com/c3RSqpmRrg

— Stay Puft (@staypuft) June 26, 2015

Despite the multiple crises, our betters are screeching about utter nonsense. Whether a flag should be displayed in an iPhone game, whether people can choose their race and gender, if old ladies should be publicly flayed or just put out of business for not baking a cake.

Eventually the electorate will come to its senses — I mean, they have to, right? As Glenn Reynolds often says, “what cannot continue, won’t.” But what cataclysm will it take to shake us out of our navel-gazing, microaggressed, Brawndo-swilling stupor?

An even worse financial collapse than in 2008 with no borrowed money left to rescue the banks? A deadlier act of war than 9-11? And if either happens, God forbid, will Americans just use the moment to blame each other in even uglier terms?

My ultimate hope, as a Christian, is knowing that God is in control. Being a student of history, I know that cultures have endured far worse calamities than our comfortable decline. But I want to know how you keep your hopes up. Fatalism will never win hearts and minds, let alone elections, so do you have advice on keeping political setbacks from dragging you into despond?

RTWT.

Added: From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "IS THIS WEEK THE RIGHT’S VALLEY FORGE? From Rick Moran at the PJ Tatler."