Of course the world will end, but none of knows the day nor the hour.  John Paul II was correct as well (per your quote of him), but so you do not become too down Viva, remember you are Roman Catholic first. 

Nations (worldly powers) rise and fall; wax and wane.  Just look at Italy, Spain, France, and even England.  All were once superpowers, and while none are superpowers today, the folks who live there have decent lives etc.

My point is that while nations rise, rule, and retreat back to normalcy in a cycle of sorts, you can be certain the thing that will survive is God's word and His church.  

In short, we can take comfort in undestanding that no matter what happens to the government of the USA, the Catholic Church will continue and "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Please do not misunderstand me; I am not advocating any sort of apathy, non-participation in, or withdrawal from society.  I think we need to be engaged in society and always try our best, but at the same time I can't go for claiming 'the sky is falling' just because the politics of the day go against us.

Part of being Christian is to be optimistic; we should be so because we are fortunate enough to know about and have faith in Almighty God.

I do not like old Shrillary any more than you do, but I simply would not worry as much as you seem to.

You are correct of course, in that 45 million+ is horrible beyond belief.  The question then is, how should we set about changing the minds of the people of this nation?

It seems the problem is multi-faceted, and in the end - as we did with both slavery and later with segregation - after all efforts to educate, cajole, and convince are exhausted, the majority would simply change the laws and let the minority that still holds the old view come by experience to see how they were wrong or in any case, to understand the new law.  Many southerners still thought segregation was Ok when we passed the Civil Rights Act (1964), but they simply had to accept the will of the majority and adjust their behavior to live under the new law.  Keep in mind the abolitionists worked for more than one hundred years just to get slavery outlawed.  We have been at this for forty-some years now, and we have a ways to go.

The first thing we need to do is pray, then we must be patient, non-violent, and we must really work politically and otherwise under the system we have in this great country.  We need to use education and cultural and political alliances of all sorts to change the opinion of our compatriots in order to end this savage, selfish, and diabolical practice:

Pray - Pray, and Pray more for mercy and guidance.

Education - Educate our children to understand how valuable each person is, and why they are so valuable.

Political Alliances - Vote Pro Life - Always; regardless of party or your other personal interests.  We need to work especially with groups that advocate non-violence, human rights, and those that work toward protecting animals and the environment.

Religious Alliances - Greek Orthodox, Evangelicals, Jews, Muslims, Like-minded Protestants, Buhdists; none of these groups like abortion, and we need to set aside our differences and work with them on this.

Cultural Alliances - Mexicans, Blacks, Arabs, Jews, Ukranians, Ethiopians, Vietnamese, and many other immigrant groups do not go in for abortion; we need to set aside any differences we might have and work with them on this.

Professional Alliances - Psychologists and therapists who work with post-abortion women, medical doctors and universities, scientists, imaging engineers, news media, etc.

International - We need to work with any country or people in this world who wants to end abortion.

 In short, we need to pray, pray, and pray for mercy, and all the while we really keep an open mind and work with whomever will work with us to change this awful practice.

 Imagine, what would you say to the following two candidateS

A - One advocates a steep gax tax (to protect environment), an end to the death penalty, is pro-Business, and who is pro-life? 

B - One advocates for no gas tax, a flat income tax, keeping the death penalty, and is pro-Labor, but is pro-choice.

 I would have to vote for candidate A.  While I may not think the death penalty should be outlawed, and I do not like taxes, and I am a union man, I would nevertheless need to vote for candiate A, because Life trumps the other considerations.  I can live with taxes, and I can live with paying to house a murderer, and I can manage with pro-Business types, but I cannot abide murdering babies, the infirm, or old people.