Conservative Doldrum vs. Christian Hope

Not by choice, but not by coercion neither, have I been watching a lot of FOX News lately; particularly O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck. And here's my question. Is not FOX News as ridiculously biased on the conservative perspective as is CNN the liberal? Now I understand that talking heads are what they are. Everyone has the right to an opinion, and the right to share it, and if they can get paid to have people watch it, that's fine by me. But when it comes to just reporting News, does anybody do that anymore? (besides the local news of course.) Another problem is that people like Beck are extremely influential in people's lives. He must express many Americans sentiments, otherwise he would not be so popular. But it seems that FOX News is now the alternative for conservatives. It's Nirvana to CNN's Guns and Roses. Maybe the press is so overwhelmingly liberal that this is necessary, but I'm a little concerned about conservatives today. I've spent the last two weeks of my life with people more conservative than the people I am accustomed to being around, and while I deeply appreciate these people, I am becoming infected by their apocalyptic paranoia. Today's conservatives seem perfectly content to consider the war (against our country's increasing liberalism; a debatable position itself)lost and have resigned themselves to fear mongering, complaining, and waiting for the ball to drop. Conservatism, in my life time, has never been so depressing.
Here's the impression I get of today's conservative viewpoint: Our country is headed towards inevitable socialism, which in their minds means totalitarianism. Socialism+national debt= fall of our nation. Our youth culture has no ambition or morals. We must get back to the way things used to be.
The problem here is twofold. One, there's seems to be no plan on how to get things back to the way they used to be, other than preaching to to the choir, and fear mongering. Two, no real attempt is made at dialogue with liberals or the youth culture, and thus my generation has no idea why things so much better then, and why things are comparatively worse now. Then was the the Great Depression. Then was two World Wars, and the Holocaust. Then was Vietnam. Now is all sorts of bad too, but its all sorts of good as well, as well as was then. I wish divorce wasn't prevalent. I wish violence was not so volatile. I wish abortion wasn't on the rise. I wish our government wasn't so big and didn't spend so much money. But is it really all a part of a giant Obama/socialist conspiracy that started all the way back in the 60's? Attempts to explain how we got where we are have their merit, certainly. They can help us moving forward, but what about the future? What do we do to curb all this badness? If I hear a conservative who thinks in those terms I might not feel so stifled and lethargic.
Now it's no secret that the American conservative is generally speaking, a religious person, and is most likely Christian. I am a deeply committed Christian myself, and so the religious angle matters to me. It is inconsistent with Christianity's message of hope to be so despairing, is it not? Don't we know that we win? Society must go down the tubes. That's its natural course, so why would we want to return to a better time, when one, regardless of what time you find yourself in a society, its regressing, two, its still not the optimal situation which is the kingdom of God, and three, regardless of what age we find ourselves in we have the keys of the kingdom, and a message that applies to our neighbors, an urgent message at that? Isn't the call to return to better days, a call to return to something that is not the kingdom of God as much as looking forward to better days (like progressives) is the same thing. Call out abortion, I say, but not in the name of the Constitution, but in the name of what's right. And if we live under a socialistic, totalitarian government, yeah it sucks, but either way we have God on our side, and a gospel that not even the government can contain. (Besides we still are considered a center-right nation. Republicans are going to win the house and senate. How close to socialism can we be?)
Some Christians attachment to an American ideal seems to be a form of idolatry. Perhaps this because I was born in 1982, received a public education, and didn't grow up in Christian home. Perhaps I learned a different history than some in previous generations did. The idyllic age is unfortunately not a part of my experience. Hence, my lack of sympathy. I can see that it probably feels pretty crappy to see a generation of folks destroy everything you fought for, believed in, and cherished.
A wise man told me something. He said the problem today is that young people do not listen to experience, and that older folks do not listen to developing perspectives. A healthy society does both. Trust me when I say I've listened to "the old" perspective, and I'm genuinely trying to be sensitive to it, mostly because I think it would be foolish not to. But I ask you to look at mine. As a young person who has no attachments to the things of the past, but who wishes that the government wasn't so big, the borders were not so open, and the debt wasn't so high, who is a Christian and a Biblicist, let me lead us to a perspective of hope, let me call all people liberal and conservative to move past discussions that depend on man's wisdom, to faith that believes that God wins, despite all contrary evidence. Let us focus on the task, saving people, so they will be on the right side of society's salvation. Patriotism and nostalgia are a distraction from that.