Living in hurricane country, I suggest a different paradigm of experience and train of thought to this important thought-provoking post. I have seen first hand what ordinary American citizens do for one another when crisis comes. This is the USA. There is no one OUTSIDE the USA coming to our rescue if things go sideways. Our friends and family and complete strangers WILL send food and medicine and diapers and baby formula. They will volunteer and organize a civilian Air Drop to anywhere in the country that need help. Yes, after Hurricane Florence passed through, friends & neighbors organized a civilian air drop to our little local jetport before the NG got their helos to the closest city in the next county. Freedom still lives in our hearts. We are our own heroes. Ordinary Americans help one another every time there is a car wreck or a house burns down. We help one another every time there is a hurricane or flash flooding. We use our social media and every bit of our wherewithal to do what little bit we can to alleviate suffering, supply what is lacking, and bring hope. If you have never seen firsthand this goodness well up in your fellow man when news breaks of a disaster, you have missed out on the best of what freedom instilled in your fellow Americans, I know this to be 100% true, time and again. I have given and I have received. Americans are generous and resourceful and love their fellowman. They cannot steal that from our hearts, nor stop us from doing what is good and right and kind. If we ever stop being the best of humanity in our hearts and in our actions, that is on us, not on 'them'.