@aviradearah What would you rather? That a man be nichshol in speaking Lashon Hora all day every day, or that he gives all of his money to tzedaka?
What you are presenting is a false dichotomy. Not only is it ridiculous to assume that the only two choices in life are to be an Am Ha’aretz in one way or another, but that isn’t even what I’m discussing! There’s a massive difference between the actions of a community and the choices of an individual, it’s incomparable!
So I would have to say, going back to my actual question, that I would rather a minority of a dying minority continue doing the anti-Torah things that they always did, than a growing majority follow a different, but still dangerous, anti-Torah path.
I don’t know what your job is, but I recall that MTA (YU’s high school) had a Satmar Chusid on staff as one of the Rebbeim. I was told that it was pretty well known that he had explicit instructions from the hanhalla what he could and could not say. Any discussion about Israel was obviously assur.