1. True. This will sound trite, but one thing life has taught me (though I refuse to learn & keep trying): you cannot help people, except by being strong yourself & an example. They have to be willing to do something, even if it’s very small, themselves.
2. I will write about this at length, but I worked briefly in state housing and I saw how material plenty leads to psychological or spiritual rot. The party political right is still too subverted by postwar social democracy in the West to be too helpful in this regard.