Was watching the Timcast with Milo on and thought this point in particular deserved seperate discussion given not just recent but years of events.
The point Milo raised was that the ammendments in America can only work with a Christian society, the 2nd only works if you value life and the 1st only works in a society that regularly attends confession. He obviously has a bias but I want to expand that.
We can see that there's two aspects that is really damaging western society, constant attacks on Christianity and not really any other religion (Jew's get few but quickly slapped down by establishment) and a more individualistic view of the world.
For Democracy to work you need everyone to have a stake in it, everyone to share the same morality and everyone to want to improve their communities. On all fronts we've seen either a decrease or an abandonment of each of these values thanks to education policies, media and mass illegal immigration from conflicting cultures.
So the questions, can Democracy only exist in a fully Christian society, should the West no longer be a democracy and if so what system should take it's place, obviously not communism as no matter what that never works.
Hell, democracy didn't work in its very birthplace. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because the demagogue Alcibiades convinced the voters it would be a brilliant idea to open a new front against neutral Syracuse, ostensibly to help a minor ally (Segesta) but in reality with hopes of plundering the riches of Sicily and neutering a potential future rival to their hegemony over Greece, when they were winning against Sparta (their original enemy).
Even before the ensuing crippling defeat, the Athenian empire was hardly the benevolent force for liberation and mutual protection it pretended to be, being quite brutal to any who crossed it or tried to leave the Athens-led Delian League. Its ancient Persian enemy, which lent support to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War because Athens was hellbent on antagonizing them and fucking around in Ionia even after they had retreated from Greece itself, was at worst just as bad and at best might have actually been less shitty (certainly less hypocritical) than Athens & the Delians. Also it was the source of the Melian Dialogue, which boiled down to the reality that it was truly no less corrupt and oppressive than any more openly malevolent empires, in spite of all its leaders' claims to the contrary.
I don't put excessive stock in historical cycles repeating itself, but damn if it isn't tempting to substitute 'USA' for Athens, 'NATO/the GAE' for the Delian League, '(Post-Soviet) Russia' for Syracuse & Sparta both, 'China' for Persia, and 'literally everyone who has ever crossed the liberal world order and gotten bombed to slag for it, from Vietnam to Serbia to Libya & Syria' for unfortunate Melos. I don't think there's any chance for an optimistic ending (unless you're a weapons manufacturer or exporter of globohomo of course) to our latter-day Peloponnesian War either, not even for our 'Athens' should they win. (Had Athens won the Peloponnesian War, most likely its empire would still have eventually unraveled between internal dissent at the ruthless reality of Athenian hegemony and mounting external pressure from Persia and especially rising Macedon)