[TheRealThing]

"We are a much degraded people" though human nature be the same? The spirit which orchestrated the Salem witch trials is not gone. The spirit which sold children away from mothers at auction is not gone. The spirit which denied women the right to vote or hold property is not gone. The spirit which blames the stranger, the immigrant, the different and makes them a scapegoat is not gone. The spirit which got into mobs and led them to lynch is not gone. The spirit which threw rocks at buses and blocked the school door is not gone.

Being a biblical scribe, you know the worth of an invitation cannot be measured by the number of affirmative responses.

I would guess that 300 million human natures will generate a lot more degradation than less than a million.

And therein lies the mitigating root of confusion for you about all tings traditionally conservative.