Some problems cannot be undone or reversed, they can only proceed apace to their inevitable undoing. We're having discussions that should have been had 40-50 years ago. As it is now, we've had multiple generations reared in a society where all the commanding heights are controlled by the Left. They are, literally, unsalvageable.
I'm not sure fatalism is even the right way to describe the attitudes here. Fatalism implies a belief or acceptance of something preordained and immune to any efforts to the contrary. I would say the attitudes here are consequentalist. They may seem the same at times, but in my view the highly likely course of events that awaits us wasn't always inevitable, it's just that as time progressed and reinforcing events continued to take place there was a slow convergence of likely futures onto the one most often discussed here. It's rather like someone painting themselves into a corner. When they first started painting it was not inevitable that they would get stuck in the corner (that would be fatalism), but each pass with the paint roller made that outcome increasingly likely, and once they painted past the only remaining exit (that would be consequentialism), being stuck in the corner did become an inevitability.
Most of us here did spend a long time and a lot of mental and emotional energy on the "how do we reverse course?" question, and for a lot of us the unpleasant answer ended up being "we can't". Even if we could reverse course, the things that would entail (rolling back entitlements, etc) would produce the same sort of civil strife that awaits us as a consequence of not reversing course.
