There are laws against running a red light, jaywalking, and littering, but because the threat of being cited for any of those is relatively low, people continue to do those things. The obvious response is to increase policing, and that leads to increased citing for infractions.
Taking that to the next larger step, morality, will require such intimate policing that many will openly reject it - that will then cause political sides to reverse, with Republicans becoming those for increasing government, and Democrats for decreasing government. You don’t want this road to even be opened.
Reducing governments to their bare bones I think will please a sufficient number from both sides as to make it non-politically threatening for those wanting to pursue it.
Throwing more laws at already bad laws will not fix things. It’s like throwing gun control at crime in the hopes that criminals will follow the law and turn in their guns. It just doesn’t work that way.
You're missing one little thing 'bout the Adams quote.
If you have a virtuous people, they will reflect their virtue by passing laws to uphold that virtue: but if they are corrupt, the laws alone won't save them.
The real answer is the voluntary restoration of Christianity from the ground up.
Over the hand-wringing of the atheists, Communists, homosexuals, man-hating feminists, and libertines which have been carefully nurtured in our secular schools for so many years.
One can only imagine how different the world would have been if we had nuked Stalin in '46 when we had the chance...
Cheers!