[lacy_tinpot]

It's not our aspirations that we've lost.

It's the entrenchment of a particular kind of parasitic elite.

The logic that made them into "elites" has turned in on itself and is now self-cannibalizing.

The saving grace is only the capacity for the American people to see through this, but with the derangement of information pathways we're increasingly at the behest of these people and their narratives that only serve their aggrandizement.

All the talk about "saving the west" or "individualism" or the some other talk of spirit that these preachers sermon about, is only to serve themselves and no one else.

"Calling out evil" is another one of those victims to their self-serving motivations. Along with "climate change", "environmentalism", "democracy", "freedom", or a whole host of otherwise genuinely noble causes.