That has nothing to do with not wanting to fight on or rolling over and giving up. I and those around me will fight on, until the end - not only for ourselves but for our kids, grandkids, and generations yet to come. But the odds are increasingly stacked against us by the generations long wiles of the enemy and the foolishness of our "friends", especially those in our effete political, legal, and educational classes.
Our national decline started with the Supreme Court decisions of 1962-63 which drove God out of the public squares and out of the schools. We acquiesced to that demonic plot. Now the putrid results have slowly seeped deep and wide into our culture and national character. For the past generation or two the Left has pretty much taken over the education and indoctrination of our kids while the bad culture has increasingly polluted nearly everything else.
Without a massive spiritual revival and a miraculous national regeneration of our Founding documents and vision, the game is likely over. The USA will maybe survive in some reduced form, but once Trump is gone the precipitous decline will begin again and an awful end to freedom, liberty, and the American Dream will shortly arrive.
The relatively Godly society of 70 years ago has become the full-on Gimmee society with the most ignorant (and young) among us enthusiastically embracing socialism and tyranny in droves. Additionally, we have let in hordes of both legal immigrants and illegal aliens many if not most of whom embrace all but our Constitutional values. ("Diversity Is Our Strength!", which is total bullsh!t) It has all been part of the destructive Plan.
It's not game over yet, but it is the last half of the 9th inning. This is our last chance. Thank God we at least have a real fighting General in Donald Trump. But we must return to our national motto, "In God We Trust".
Being born in 1949, I see the Nation exactly as you described. The Supreme Court ruled in 1962 to remove God from public schools. This goes right back to the Supreme Court’s landmark Everson vs the Board of Education of 1947. Hugo Black the progressive FDR appointment created the modern day constitutional principle of separation of church and state out of thin air.