They are lost if no one wants to find them.
IRS is laughing in our faces, daring us to do something about it. They know they can do what they want, with absolute and open impunity.
To quote the philosopher Burt Reynolds in an old movie of his, this isn't America anymore, its Guatemala with color television.
True enough, dear brother in Christ, as far as it goes.
And yet, I am not as despondent about these developments as much as you seem to be.
I have not given up HOPE — which is unshakeable, since God's Word cannot fail but will be fulfilled in the world of His creation.
Our common American culture — whose roots are to be found in classical philosophy as perfected by the Judeo-Christian tradition — is that which promulgates and sustains us, and our "exceptional" civil order. We are a nation "under God." He will not abandon those who love Him.
Rather, I believe He asks us to defend the very principles upon which our personal and civil order depends. And so, that is what we God-"fearing" people must do.
It isn't any more complicated than that.
Rather than imagine yourself as some kind of victim of processes beyond human control, just stand up for what you believe, to the best of your ability. And speak truth to (human) power as often as possible. That's all God asks of us.
And then, we just leave the rest of it, the details, up to Him.
The Lord works all things to the benefit of those who love Him.
Assuredly, that includes YOU.
As Pope John Paul II put it, "Be not afraid!" Christ asks us to "cross the threshold of hope" so to stand with Him....
He is our very Life. He is our very Truth. He is our very Salvation. He is our "mediator" who conveys our mortal selves unto eternal life....
Be not afraid! Be not depressed, nor disconsolate in any way! The Lord made a glorious creation, and called us to be principal participants of it.
We humans are called as stewards of what God has wrought. Not "owners"; only principled participants with responsibilities as agents of God's Will and Purpose, here "below".... That is to say, from the standpoint of our mortality....
In Christ's love and peace and light, my dear brother in Him!