I actually don't think Laurel's old enough to remember those days. Things are getting worse at a faster pace. That's for sure.
But America's infrastructure has been in decline for decades, not years.
Truth be told the worse thing that ever happened to America was the empire we spun up after the second world war.
That empire is dead and it will lead to the collapse of the Republic if we are forced to choose between communism and fascism. And that appears to be the choice that we're moving toward.
I think Christianity can help us avoid that choice, but not the disunified and dishonest version current among us.