The bald truth is that our government is totally screwed up, ineffective, thieving, romper room tantrum throwing criminals, treason on an unimaginable scale.
Society has already collapsed, functioning just enough to keep up the illusion.
We are on the precipice. Now = Frodo and Gollum fighting for the Ring in the volcano, at the edge of the ledge, bloody and driven insane by Evil, worn down to wraiths of their normal selves.
The only reason Middle Earth survived was God's grace and the bravery of all its good hearted beings.
We will only survive now by God's Grace. Earth teeters on the brink of annihilation.