If not us, then who?

I have said a variation of this for years.

Sadly, and part of why I rejected joining the light workers back when they were a thing was the acceptance that most prefer to have the falsity as it allows them excuse to cut corners and perhaps get ahead at their neighbors expense. In all my reading of history I have not encountered when it has not been this way, and for brief times there were beneficial rulers, pushing a just system that quickly died after they did.