You make it sound as if living under the yoke of the Lord is the lesser of two evils.
That wasn't my intent at all. I believe the Lord is a merciful shepherd. I also believe that our current situation is retribution for forsaking God in our society. This is our punishment. Accepting the Lord and forgoing life's materialist eccentricities are a guarantee that we will not want, and that, quite frankly, pisses off the Leftists to no end!
The fact that God-loving, God-fearing people can be happy with so little is a testament to the greatness of God and a big reason why Progressives want God out of the public dialogue. A love of God does not work with Statism, and they know it!