Virtue never tested is no virtue at all

Most of the time, I still feel like I'm not writing about what I want to write about.  I'm working up to it, but I still can't do it. "Virtue never tested is no virtue at all,"  is a quote from this Billy Bragg song. I use it here to explain the current collapsing of our institutions. Too few idealists, too late in the game to matter is what my guess is, but who knows.