Have you seen the egos on most people? They're fucking massive.

They see themselves as better than anyone who doesn't trust in "random covid expert #4". They see themselves like this because they have big, fat egos.

So I'd say the problem is the exact opposite. Our country is fucked because people trust themselves far too much, and trust God far too little.

Specifically, they trust themselves far, far too much to correctly outsource their thinking to someone credible (or more charitably, to pick who is worth listening to for valid information). In the end, they usually end up outsourcing their thinking to some Satanist asshole who just wants to kill them (not to mention extremely intelligent, high IQ people who do critically think about shit and do use their judgement and brilliant mind, but who only trust mainstream information and so conclude a bunch of stupid shit anyway.).

These people aren't pure victims of some big bad group of evil people. Every time they refuse to listen to people like us and run back to the cabal info spout, they are making a determination using their judgement and mind that we are wrong, and the cabal is right. To act like they bear no responsibility for this and are just mindless automatons incapable of integrating new information is silly, and also contradictory to the notion that they are capable of trusting their own thinking in the first place.

Ultimately, most people are sheep. They're going to find a shepherd. The Bible has understood that aspect of human nature for 2000 years. The question is, do people follow God or Satan.

(and as a side note, God can be completely imaginary and that all still applies, because God or no God, that is the truth of human nature)