CA, the spies did not want to go. The people did. However, that obviously was not enough given the enormity of the חטא. Rambam discusses this in chapters 1 and 4 of Hilchot Teshuva. In fact, the two great national sins the חטא העגל and the חטא המרגלים were so profound that they are still with us. The former is committed by all those who think that some foreign ideology, even if it some part of Torah (in fact, according to the Zohar the sin involved separating the name אלוקים and only having אלה), will by itself bring תיקון עולם. The latter is committed by all those who want to give up sovereignty over all or part of Eretz Yisrael.
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