And the fear of an ineffective Savior, might be due to an ineffective modern church presentation of a Savior.
I have theorized that this in turn could be due to the long standing acceptance of a “Christianized” America. At one point, 70-80% of Americans claimed to be Christian. This created a barrier against evangelism, because if you figuratively believe you are an Eskimo, of course nobody will be able to sell you ice. Even if in fact you have no ice.
Tares should be granted the freedom to look like tares. They shouldn’t be churchily coated with powdered wheat, so to speak. Jesus’ dramatic salvations of sinners took place at a time when this was true at the popular level at least (the Pharisees were grim hypocritical exceptions, and they got the rare hell fire preaching treatment from Jesus).
Very simply I do not look for world leaders ( politicians) Americans or otherwise to be saviors. I am aware that many do, because for a percentage of people the government is God. For me, there is only one Jesus and he is the only savior.
Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Obama, Clinton, Bush, they are only men and when you look for salvation from men not God you will always be disappointed. Some world leaders have been better than others some worse.
At the end of the day we can only vote for the person we trust to do what he says he will do on the issues that are important to us. Will whomever we elect uphold the principles that founded our nation? It involves trying to discern what is really in a politician’s heart. Not so easy to do.