If politics did not enter into using government law and power to dictate an amoral realm and respected religious freedom as intended by the constitution, religion would not enter into politics beyond the character measurement of individuals running for office according to each person’s own standards.
Alas, the two have been in a struggle since the radical rose up in the 60’s and there is now a struggle for dominance between Social Marxists/humanists/atheists and America’s founding Judeo Christian Western culture and philosphy. There will be no void and the two sides are very different in outcome for the well being and constitutional standing of the Republic. One created the ideals and nature of this Republic’s individual liberty and justice and the other produced the Soviet Union.
You are absolutely right. I suggest that it is our culture that has failed. The moral culture necessary to support our representative democracy has disintegrated and we will never retrieve it at the ballot box. I view myself as moral yet agnostic. Hence my displeasure with posts like this one... mindless, irrelevant, presumptuous, self-serving and arrogant. I could be wrong, however. That’s the agnostic in me. :{)